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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ime break out,When to that Husband it a crop shall yield,Who first did dress and till this new-sown Field ;Yet ere this Field you see this crop can give,The seed first dies, that it again may live. The epitaph written on Mary Pyper, a well-known writer of sacred verse, and a passionatelover of flowers, a love that may be traced allthrough her poetry, is well worth recording, ifonly for the beautiful analogy on life and theseasons :— Lye John Tradescant, grandsire, father, son ;The last dyed in his spring ; the other twoLivd till they had travelld Art and Nature-through ;As by their choice collection may appear,Of what is rare, in land, in sea, in air;Whilst they (as Homers Iliad in a nut)A world of wonders in one closet shut;These famous antiquarians had beenBoth gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen,Transplanted now themselves, sleep here : and whenAngels shall with their trumpets waken men,And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise,And change this garden for a Paradise.
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Photograph .;/ //- S. Thompson.Fig. 151.—succulent plants in the jardin dacclimatation, hyeres. I came at morn—twas Spring, and smiled, The fields with green were clad ;I walked abroad at noon, and lo ! Twas Summer—I was glad.I sat me down—twas Autumn eve, And I with sadness wept;I laid me down at night—and then Twas Winter—and I slept. The epitaph on the Tradescants, father andson, the renowned botanists and gardeners, callsespecially for mention :— Know, stranger, ere thou pass,, beneath thisstone The monument was erected by Hesther Trades-cant in 1662, the sculptures representing acrocodile, shells, etc., together with a view ofsome Egyptian buildings. At the corners of thetomb are trees worked in high relief. The stonefell into decay eventually, and was restored andrepaired by public subscription in 1773. TheRose and Lily Queen of the inscriptionrefers to Henrietta Maria, the wife of the un-fortunate Charles I., to whom the Tradescantswere both head gardeners. The fa

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