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Title: The English flower garden and home grounds : design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs and trees for the open-air garden and their culture
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935
Subjects: Flower gardening Plants, Ornamental Cottage gardening Gardens
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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for the dinner table as well as the house generally, and onthe dinner table the effect, by artificial or by natural light, of one ortwo flowers of the season, is often better than that given by avariety of flowers. What is just said of the Carnation applies tovarious noble groups of hardy flowers, such as the Tulip, Narcissusand Lily. It is not only in vases we see the good of showing one flower orgroup at a time ; a good result will often come through a singlespray or branch of a shrub. The Japanese have taught us to see Y 322 THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. the beauty of form and line in a single twig or branch, with itsnatural habit shown, apart from any beauty and form or colourits flow^ers may have. This is important, in view of the manyshrubs that flower in our climate in spring, and of which, if flower-ing shoots are cut when in bud, the flowers open slowly andwell in the house. They are best placed in Japanese bronze orother opaque jars. The taller Japanese bronze jars with narrow
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Foliage of Evergreen hardy plant (Epimedium.) necks are very useful for these, and it is an excellent practice tocut the bud-laden shoots of Sloe, Plum, Apple, Crab, and like plants,and put them in jars to bloom in the house. By this means we ad-vance their blooming time; and, in the case of severe weatherthe beauty of early shrubs may be lost to us unless we adopt thisplan. We see how well the French practice of growing Lilac inthe dwelling house prolongs the beauty of this shrub, and it is notdifficult to do something of the kind for the hardy shrubs and early THE FLOWER GARDEN IN THE HOUSE. 323 trees that come with the Daffodils, but are not so well able to bravethe climate. These shoots of early shrubs are also usually bestarranged each by itself, though some go well together, and gracefulleaves of evergreens may be used with them. One advantage ofdealing with one flower at a time is that we show and do notconceal the variety of beauty we have. For, all thrown together,that variet

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