item: #1 of 15 id: 12286 author: Richardson, David Lester title: Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden date: None words: 105077 flesch: 72 summary: The Fuchsia is decidedly the most _graceful_ flower in the world. Perhaps some foreign visitor on reading the inscription may be surprized at his own ignorance when he learns that it is not the author of _Macbeth_ and _ keywords: art; beauty; bed; blossoms; blue; branches; care; close; cold; common; country; cut; day; delight; description; earth; england; english; eye; fair; favorite; feet; fine; flower; following; form; fragrance; friend; garden; gardener; gardening; genius; god; golden; good; grass; great; green; ground; half; hand; heart; height; home; hot; house; human; hyacinth; india; kind; lady; landscape; late; leaf; leaves; life; light; lines; london; look; lord; love; man; men; milton; mind; morning; native; nature; new; o'er; paradise; people; petals; place; plant; pleasure; poet; pope; present; pride; purple; rains; red; root; rose; scene; season; seed; shade; shakespeare; sir; small; soil; species; summer; sun; sweet; taste; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; trees; varieties; variety; water; way; white; william; world; year; yellow; young cache: 12286.txt plain text: 12286.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 15088 author: Ruskin, John title: Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew date: None words: 35122 flesch: 70 summary: And first--we have to note of it, that the plan of the blossom in all the kinds is the same; an irregular quatre-foil: and irregular quatrefoils are of extreme rarity in flower form. My Viola aurea is the Rock-violet of the Alps; one of the bravest, brightest, and dearest of little flowers. keywords: air; blossom; blue; chapter; close; colour; common; english; flora; flower; form; ground; kind; leaf; leaves; life; like; modern; note; number; pansy; petals; pith; plant; power; present; purple; root; species; stalk; stem; things; time; upper; use; veronica; viola; violet; way; white; wood; word; work; year cache: 15088.txt plain text: 15088.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 163 author: Alcott, Louisa May title: Flower Fables date: None words: 34625 flesch: 81 summary: IN a quiet, pleasant meadow, Beneath a summer sky, Where green old trees their branches waved, And winds went singing by; Where a little brook went rippling So musically low, And passing clouds cast shadows On the waving grass below; Where low, sweet notes of brooding birds Stole out on the fragrant air, And golden sunlight shone undimmed On all most fresh and fair;-- There bloomed a lovely sisterhood Of happy little flowers, Together in this pleasant home, Through quiet summer hours. We pity thee, foolish little flower, To trust what the false worm said; He will not come in a fairer dress, For he lies in the green moss dead. keywords: bright; dear; earth; elves; fairy; flowers; home; leaves; light; lily; little; love; queen; rose; spirits; thistle cache: 163.txt plain text: 163.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 18913 author: Wood, J. G. (John George) title: Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. date: None words: 122891 flesch: 76 summary: Further, on the authority of Murray, _Sax. sarmentosa_ is identical with _S. ligulata_; so that, if we may suppose _S. ciliata_ to be a distinct variety of _S. ligulata_, and the latter to have such affinity to _S. sarmentosa_ that Murray puts it as identical, the chief difference between our subject and the form generally accepted as _S. ligulata_ is accounted for, viz., the hairy and rougher surfaces of the leaves, which are traits of the well-known _S. sarmentosa_. It is sometimes called _Megasea ciliata_, but there is a large-leaved species, commonly called _S. ciliata_, which is very distinct from this one, and it is all the more important that they should not be confounded with each other, as _S. ciliata_ is not very hardy, whilst this is perfectly so, being also one of our finest herbaceous perennials. keywords: appearance; autumn; bloom; calyx; colour; cut; dark; fig; fine; flowering; flowering period; flowers; foliage; form; garden; genus; green; grow; habit; half; having; illustration; june; leaf; leaves; light; like; little; loam; nat; ord; parts; perennial; period; plant; purple; rockwork; roots; round; season; size; soil; species; specimens; spring; stalks; state; stems; stout; subject; summer; time; varieties; variety; way; white; winter; years; yellow cache: 18913.txt plain text: 18913.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 20421 author: Ruskin, John title: Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew date: None words: 62137 flesch: 70 summary: A ruby is not made bright to scatter round it child-rubies; nor a flower, but in collateral and added honour, to give birth to other flowers. Leaving, however, for the present, the root unthought of, and contenting myself with Dr. Lindley's characteristics, I shall place, at the head of the whole group, our common European wild poppy, Papaver Rhoeas, and, with this, arrange the nine following other flowers thus,--opposite. keywords: air; blossom; book; botany; branches; chapter; colour; day; earth; english; fig; flower; form; fruit; general; good; grass; greek; ground; group; growing; human; husk; idea; kind; latin; leaf; leaves; life; light; lily; little; look; mind; moss; names; nomenclature; ones; order; parts; petals; place; plant; poppy; power; present; root; rose; seed; spring; stalk; stem; substance; thing; thought; time; tree; use; water; way; wild; wood; word; work cache: 20421.txt plain text: 20421.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 23302 author: Coybee, Eden title: The Dumpy Books for Children; No. 7. A Flower Book date: None words: 2014 flesch: 93 summary: little Ivy! cried Rusialka. [Illustration: WINTER JASMINE] Most beautiful of them all is Rusialka, the queen of fairies and elves. keywords: elder; illustration; lady; rusialka cache: 23302.txt plain text: 23302.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 23404 author: Anonymous title: A Little Girl to her Flowers in Verse date: None words: 627 flesch: 87 summary: But tell me now, who made these flow'rs, Who moulded them so fair; Who taught them, with such rich perfume, To scent the morning air. Here is a formal Daffodil, Though common, yet a favourite still; It seems such joyous news to bring, As harbinger of pleasant Spring. keywords: illustration; thee cache: 23404.txt plain text: 23404.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 31591 author: Greenaway, Kate title: Language of Flowers date: None words: 10433 flesch: 82 summary: _ILLUSTRATIONS. _ keywords: affection; american; beauty; china; daisy; flower; garden; geranium; illustration; indian; jasmine; leaves; lily; love; pink; plant; pride; red; rose; sweet; thee; thou; thy; tree; white; wild; yellow cache: 31591.txt plain text: 31591.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 34380 author: Salt, Henry S. title: The Call of the Wildflower date: None words: 42310 flesch: 62 summary: Nothing is commoner, in Spring, than to see piles of freshly gathered hyacinths or cowslips abandoned by the roadside; and many other flowers share the same fate, including, as I have noticed, the beautiful green-winged meadow orchis. There are many other flowers that might claim a place in this chapter, such as the sundews and the bladderworts; the mimulus and ground pine; the samphire and sea-rocket; the mullein and the teazle; and not least, the herb Paris, with that large quadruple love-knot into which its leaves are fashioned. keywords: alpine; beauty; blue; botanist; chalk; common; day; days; district; downs; english; eye; flora; flowers; foot; footnote; garden; good; great; green; ground; hills; leaves; limestone; lover; man; marsh; mountain; native; nature; number; orchis; pink; place; plants; purple; rock; rose; saw; saxifrage; sea; spring; summer; sussex; time; water; white; wild; wildflowers; wort; years; yellow cache: 34380.txt plain text: 34380.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 36872 author: Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman) title: Making a Rose Garden date: None words: 8944 flesch: 73 summary: A vital principle in feeding rose plants is one that seems to be overlooked instinctively by seven out of ten amateur gardeners. _White Grub_ An underground enemy that feeds on the roots of rose plants. keywords: beds; flowers; foliage; garden; growth; hybrid; manure; perpetuals; plants; roots; rose; soil; spring; stock; teas; time cache: 36872.txt plain text: 36872.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 40214 author: Davies, G. Christopher (George Christopher) title: The Swan and Her Crew or The Adventures of Three Young Naturalists and Sportsmen on the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk date: None words: 83374 flesch: 84 summary: Frank looked at Dick, and Dick looked at Frank, and Jimmy kicked him under the table, and at last Frank cleared his throat with a preparatory ahem and said,-- I am not good at making speeches, Mr. Meredith, but we wish to express how very much obliged we have been to you for the kindness and the--in fact the--the--well, what we mean to say is--that you are a brick of a good fellow, sir. Reaching the fir-wood Frank entered it, and after looking about for a little time, he fixed upon a tall slender young larch-tree. keywords: air; birds; black; boat; boys; broad; brown; butterfly; chapter; day; dick; eels; eggs; end; feet; fish; frank; good; great; green; ground; half; hawk; head; house; illustration; jimmy; lay; like; line; look; man; mary; morning; nest; net; night; reeds; river; sail; saw; set; sir; swan; thought; time; tree; water; way; white; wild; wind; wings; wood; yacht cache: 40214.txt plain text: 40214.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 40534 author: Wellcome, M. D., Mrs. title: Talks About Flowers. date: None words: 49720 flesch: 76 summary: _F. Alba_ bears white flowers. Richardsonii_, a variety with white flowers and deeply cleft palmate leaves, requires more heat than the former, therefore well adapted to our warm rooms. keywords: autumn; beauty; bed; bloom; blooming; bulbs; color; crimson; dark; day; double; feet; flowers; foliage; form; garden; geraniums; green; ground; growth; house; inches; leaf; leaves; light; little; new; petals; plants; purple; red; roots; rose; scarlet; seed; size; small; soil; summer; talk; time; varieties; variety; water; white; winter; year; yellow cache: 40534.txt plain text: 40534.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 42825 author: Buist, Robert title: The American Flower Garden Directory Containing Practical Directions for the Culture of Plants, in the Hot-House, Garden-House, Flower Garden and Rooms or Parlours, for Every Month in the Year date: None words: 96256 flesch: 81 summary: _coccíneum_. C. _purpùrea_, and C. _lanàta_, are among the finest; flowers blue or yellow; the latter is considered the handsomest of the genus. keywords: air; appearance; beauty; blue; bulbs; collections; colour; coloured; common; cut; day; dry; earth; end; feet; fine; flowering; flowers; foliage; garden; general; genus; green; ground; growing; growth; half; heat; house; house plants; inches; june; large; leaves; light; like; month; nature; new; petals; place; planting; plants; pots; purple; red; roots; rose; scarlet; scented; season; shoots; shrubs; situation; soil; species; state; summer; sun; sweet; time; tree; varieties; variety; water; weather; white; winter; wood; year; yellow cache: 42825.txt plain text: 42825.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 45389 author: Anonymous title: Two Yellow-Birds date: None words: 3000 flesch: 89 summary: It is very wicked to let little birds want seeds, or water, either to drink, or wash themselves in. She used to go to school in the morning, and when she came home, would often bring flowers to dress his cage with, or chickweed, and the long seed vessels of the plantain, which little birds love very much; and he always repaid her with a song. keywords: cage; lucy; mother cache: 45389.txt plain text: 45389.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 47971 author: Armstrong, Margaret title: Field Book of Western Wild Flowers date: None words: 113892 flesch: 76 summary: [Transcriber's note: Italicized text delimited by underscores (_). The field is vast, including within its limits all sorts of climate and soil, producing thousands of flowers, infinite in variety and wonderful in beauty, their environment often as different as that of Heine's _Pine and Palm_. keywords: alternate; anthers; base; bloom; blue; bracts; branches; branching; buds; california=; calyx; capsule; clusters; color; common; corolla; dark; desert; downy; dry; east; effect; etc.=; family; feet; filaments; flowers; foliage; foot; form; fruit; golden; gray; green; hairy; half; herbs; high; illustration; inch; inches; kinds; leaf; leaflets; leaves; light; lilac; little; lobes; mountain; narrow; ones; orange; ovary; pale; petals; pink; pistil; places; plant; pretty; purple; purplish; rays; red; root; seeds; sepals; shrub; sidenote; slender; small; smooth; spreading; spring; stalks; stamens; stems; stigma; stipules; stout; style; summer; tube; united; upper; utah; west; white; wild; yellow; yellowish cache: 47971.txt plain text: 47971.txt