My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens . " When I got my chalk - pit at Grays , in 1871 , built a house there , and began to take a great interest in gardening , I bought this book , and in consequence wrote to the author . Soon ...
... Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens . " When I got my chalk - pit at Grays , in 1871 , built a house there , and began to take a great interest in gardening , I bought this book , and in consequence wrote to the author . Soon ...
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... trees and shrubs , which has been a constant pleasure to me in the three gardens I have since had to make , from the very beginning . Among the dearest of my friends , the one towards whom I felt more like a brother than to any other ...
... trees and shrubs , which has been a constant pleasure to me in the three gardens I have since had to make , from the very beginning . Among the dearest of my friends , the one towards whom I felt more like a brother than to any other ...
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... trees which had been entirely denuded in a single night by Saúba ants . Various expedients are resorted to by the inhabitants of Saúba - infested lands to protect their fruit- trees , such as a small moat , kept constantly filled with ...
... trees which had been entirely denuded in a single night by Saúba ants . Various expedients are resorted to by the inhabitants of Saúba - infested lands to protect their fruit- trees , such as a small moat , kept constantly filled with ...
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... trees or shrubs they inhabited from the very powerful and destructive Saúba ants , are quite sound , and that his many years ' observations in the Amazonian forests are to be trusted on this point ; yet I believe that Belt was right in ...
... trees or shrubs they inhabited from the very powerful and destructive Saúba ants , are quite sound , and that his many years ' observations in the Amazonian forests are to be trusted on this point ; yet I believe that Belt was right in ...
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... tree , which , though infested by galls of many kinds and devoured by numerous caterpillars , is yet not in the least ... trees time to recuperate and attain to their former vigour ; while in the following year the birds have less food ...
... tree , which , though infested by galls of many kinds and devoured by numerous caterpillars , is yet not in the least ... trees time to recuperate and attain to their former vigour ; while in the following year the birds have less food ...
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