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Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth - A Book of the Sweet o' the Year (Paperback)
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Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth - A Book of the Sweet o' the Year (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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Total price: R1,356
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original
book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...ago. The general revulsion
of feeling against " bedding out" has extended to the poor plants
thus misused, which is unjust. I find I have spoken somewhat
despitefully of the Coleus, Lobelia, and Calceolaria, so I hasten
to say that I do not include the Geranium with them. I love its
clean color, in leaf and blossom; its clean fragrance; its clean
beauty, its healthy growth; it is a plant I like to have near me.
It has been the custom of late to sneer at crimson in the garden,
especially if its vivid color gets a dash of purple and becomes
what Miss Jekyll calls " malignant magenta." It is really more
vulgar than malignant, and has come to be in textile products a
stamp and symbol of vulgarity, through the forceful brilliancy of
our modern aniline dyes. But this purple crimson, this amarant,
this magenta, especially in the lighter shades, is a favorite color
in nature. The garden is never weary of wearing it. See how it
stands out in midsummer It is rank in Ragged Robin, tall Phlox, and
Petunias; you find it in the bed of Drummond Phlox, among the
Zinnias; the Portulacas, Balsams, and China Asters prolong it.
Karlier in the summer the Rhododendrons fill the garden with color
that on some of the bushes is termed sultana and crimson, but it is
in fact plain magenta. One of the good points of the Peony is that
you never saw a magenta one. This color shows that time as well as
place affects our color notions, for magenta is believed to be the
honored royal purple of the ancients. Fifty years ago no one
complained of magenta. It was deemed a cheerful color, and was set
out boldly and complacently by the side of pink or scarlet, or wall
flower colors. Now I dislike it so that really the printed word,
seen often as I glance back through this...
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