The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Volume 1John Claudius Loudon Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826 - Agriculture |
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... Remarks on Mr. Thompson's Observations on the Effect of the Lombardy Poplar in Park Scenery . By Richard Morris , Esq . F.LS. , Surveyor and Landscape Gardener 116 Remarks on the Effects of the Cedar of Lebanon in Landscape . By John ...
... Remarks on Mr. Thompson's Observations on the Effect of the Lombardy Poplar in Park Scenery . By Richard Morris , Esq . F.LS. , Surveyor and Landscape Gardener 116 Remarks on the Effects of the Cedar of Lebanon in Landscape . By John ...
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... Remarks . By Mr. Joseph Archibald , C.M.H.S. , upwards of Nineteen Years Gardener there Page 251 On Field Gardening , and on the Gardens of Farm Servants in Scotland . By Verus , of Berwickshire 259 Some Account of the Kitley Shaddock ...
... Remarks . By Mr. Joseph Archibald , C.M.H.S. , upwards of Nineteen Years Gardener there Page 251 On Field Gardening , and on the Gardens of Farm Servants in Scotland . By Verus , of Berwickshire 259 Some Account of the Kitley Shaddock ...
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... remark is applicable to ornamental trees and shrubs . A great many new sorts of these have been in- troduced within the present century ; and a number of those formerly in the country , which were considered tender , and requiring the ...
... remark is applicable to ornamental trees and shrubs . A great many new sorts of these have been in- troduced within the present century ; and a number of those formerly in the country , which were considered tender , and requiring the ...
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... remark does not apply to gardeners who have either received a tolerable scholastic education , or have made up for ... remarks will apply to agronomes . " We substitute the word agronome for the hateful appellation bailiff , till some ...
... remark does not apply to gardeners who have either received a tolerable scholastic education , or have made up for ... remarks will apply to agronomes . " We substitute the word agronome for the hateful appellation bailiff , till some ...
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... remark that the same indifference to every improvement in horticultural buildings prevails , as in the royal gardens around London . Every new method runs its , round , before it passes the centinel at the gate , and in ninety- nine ...
... remark that the same indifference to every improvement in horticultural buildings prevails , as in the royal gardens around London . Every new method runs its , round , before it passes the centinel at the gate , and in ninety- nine ...
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