item: #1 of 23 id: 11660 author: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title: Ethel Morton's Enterprise date: None words: 58819 flesch: 84 summary: Tell us, begged Ethel Blue, who was expending special care on digging up this contribution to the garden as if to make amends for the unkindness of the scientific world, and Ethel Brown repeated the poem beginning When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from last year's leaves below. murmured Ethel Brown to Ethel Blue. keywords: bed; blue; brown; clark; club; day; della; dorothy; emerson; emily; ethel; ethel blue; ethel brown; flowers; garden; girls; good; grandfather; helen; house; james; know; leaf; leaves; look; man; margaret; mary; miss; mother; mrs; new; people; pink; place; plants; right; roger; room; smith; stanley; summer; table; thought; time; water; way; yellow cache: 11660.txt plain text: 11660.txt item: #2 of 23 id: 11892 author: Pink, Alfred title: Gardening for the Million date: None words: 72659 flesch: 83 summary: Iris.--The Iris is the orchid of the flower garden; its blossoms are the most rich and varied in colour of hardy plants. Height, 3 ft. Acrotis.--These are mostly hardy herbaceous plants from South Africa. keywords: annuals; april; august; autumn; bloom; border; cuttings; deep; division; evergreen; flowering; flowers; foliage; frame; garden soil; glass; good; greenhouse; ground; growth; hardy; heat; height; july; june; leaf; leaves; light; loam; manure; march; mould; open; peat; peat soil; perennial; place; plants; pots; roots; sand; seed; seed sown; september; shrubs; situation; soil; sown; spring; summer; time; varieties; water; white; winter cache: 11892.txt plain text: 11892.txt item: #3 of 23 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: #4 of 23 id: 13537 author: Shaw, Ellen Eddy title: The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. date: None words: 79279 flesch: 92 summary: Many writers will cover this subject by saying plant seeds when the earth is warm. This is a far easier way to plant since as the little seedlings come up one can easily distinguish the nice even row of little plants from weeds. keywords: albert; bed; bit; box; boys; bulbs; cabbage; chief; colour; corn; cut; end; feet; fine; flowers; garden; garden soil; george; girls; good; ground; grow; inches; jack; jay; june; land; leaves; left; lettuce; line; look; myron; new; peter; piece; place; plant; planting; red; right; roots; seed; soil; space; spring; think; time; use; water; way; white; winter; work; yellow; | | cache: 13537.txt plain text: 13537.txt item: #5 of 23 id: 17514 author: Wright, Mabel Osgood title: The Garden, You, and I date: None words: 88991 flesch: 70 summary: ft. |April |It is usual to sow in varieties | flowers | rich | | to |pansies in frames | first | colours| |Dec. HARDY | COLOUR |HEIGHT |SEASON |REMARKS --------------------+---------+--------+-------+-------+-------------------- Aquilegia-COLUMBINE | H.P.* | | 3 ft. |June |Columbines are among | | | | |the most graceful Chrysantha | keywords: = =; bart; bed; bit; bloom |; blue |; colour; day; early; edge |; evan; farm; feet; ferns; flowers |; fragrant |; garden; glories |; good; grandiflora |; green; ground; half; home; house; inches |; june |; leaves; lilies; man; maria; new; open; place; plant |; primrose |; reds |; rose; scarlet |; season; seed |; set; setting |; snowball |; soil; spring |; summer; sweet; things; time; variety |; victoria |; water; way; wild; winter; | ft; | mrs; | year; | |; | |1½; | |all; | |and; | |are; | |asters; | |autumn; | |before; | |blossoms; | |come; | |crimson; | |flowering; | |have; | |in; | |light; | |magenta; | |may; | |oct; | |of; | |on; | |once; | |pink; | |purple; | |seedlings; | |shrubs; | |sown; | |spikes; | |the; | |their; | |them; | |they; | |transplant; | |varieties; | |well; | |white; | |will; | |with; | |your; |yellow | cache: 17514.txt plain text: 17514.txt item: #6 of 23 id: 18183 author: None title: Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 date: None words: 237282 flesch: 77 summary: Osgood, H. E. St. Paul Otte, E. W. 821 S. Wabasha St. W. St. Paul Ostergren, E. A. N. St. Paul Ostrom, Mrs. C. J. Winthrop Otosa, A. L. R. 3, St. James Osborn, Frank H. R. 4, Albert Lea Otto, W. H. 958 S. Robert St., W. St. Paul Oswald, Wm. S. Minneapolis Olson, A. H. 912 W. Robert St., St. Paul Olson, Miss Margaret Wyoming Olson, Martin Lake City Olson, C. E. Underwood Oleson, Cris Cushing, Wis. Old, Mrs. M. E., 1399 W. Minnehaha St. St. Paul Oredalen, Ole Kenyon O'Neill, O. H. 608 Globe Bldg., St. Paul Opsata, C. Bemidji Omland, Erik McIntosh Orr, Grier M. 1040 Laurel Ave., St. Paul O'Neil, Wm. keywords: .50; 1916; a. a.; a. r.; a. w.; albert; annual; apples; arsenate; ave; bearing; bed; bees; best; black; bldg; blight; bloom; blossoms; board; box; breeding; brown; buds; building; business; c. a.; c. e.; c. w.; care; cent; chas; city; cold; collection; color; coming; commercial; conditions; corn; cost; country; course; cover; crop; cultivation; cut; day; days; duluth; dunlap; e. a.; e. r.; e. w.; early; excelsior; experience; f. w.; fact; fair; fall; farm; farmers; feet; field; flower; following; frank; fred; frost; fruit; fruit trees; garden; geo; good; green; ground; growers; growing; growth; h. a.; h. e.; h. j.; half; hand; hansen; henry; high; home; honey; hopkins; horticultural; house; illustration; inches; interest; j. a.; j. w.; john; johnson; june; kellogg; kind; lake; land; late; latham; lead; leaves; life; like; lime; line; list; little; long; making; man; manure; market; marketing; matter; meeting; members; men; minneapolis; minnesota; minnesota state; miss; mpls; mrs; native; near; need; new; north; number; old; orchard; order; park; past; paul; pay; peonies; people; peterson; pine; place; planting; plants; plums; premium; present; president; price; prof; program; protection; quality; question; rapids; raspberries; red; report; results; rev; right; river; roots; roses; rot; rows; season; second; secretary; seed; seedlings; set; size; small; society; soil; south; spray; spraying; spring; stand; state; state fruit; station; stock; strawberries; strawberry; success; sulphur; summer; sweet; thing; time; trees; trial; university; use; value; varieties; variety; vegetables; w. h.; w. r.; w. st; w. w.; water; way; wealthy; weather; west; white; winter; wis; wisconsin; work; working; year; young cache: 18183.txt plain text: 18183.txt item: #7 of 23 id: 19644 author: Ewing, Juliana Horatia title: Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers date: None words: 49662 flesch: 86 summary: On the contrary, you can take them up, and divide, and reset, and send a portion to other little gardens where they are lacking. Now, there are owners of big gardens and little gardens, who like to have a garden (what Englishman does not?), and like to see it gay and tidy, but who don't know one flower from the rest. keywords: adela; arthur; aunt; book; boy; brown; catherine; chris; day; dear; father; flowers; garden; good; grandmamma; harry; head; hermit; home; hose; jael; john; man; margery; mary; meadow; mother; paradise; people; plants; round; saxon; squire; things; thought; time; way; white cache: 19644.txt plain text: 19644.txt item: #8 of 23 id: 22973 author: Markham, Gervase title: The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments date: None words: 67760 flesch: 34 summary: {Illustration} Now for the orderly placing of your trées, you shall vnderstand that your Plumbe-trées (which are as it were a fence or guard about your great quarters) would be placed in rowes one by one, aboue fiue foote distance one from another, round about each skirt of euery alley: your Apple-trées & other greater fruit which are to be planted in the quarters, would be placed in such arteficiall rowes that which way soeuer a man shall cast his eyes yet hée shall sée the trées euery way stand in rowes, making squares, alleyes, and deuisions, according to a mans imagination, according to the figure before, which I would haue you suppose to be one quarter in an Orchard, and by it you may easily compound the rest: wherein you shall vnderstand that the lesser prickes doe figure your Plumbe-trées, & the greater prickes your Apple trées, and such other large fruit. Now to giue you my meaning of these two words, _loose_ and _fast_, it is, that euery soyle which vpon parching and dry weather, euen when the Sunne beames scorcheth, and as it were baketh the earth, if then the ground vpon such excéeding drought doe moulder and fall to dust, so that whereas before when it did retaine moisture it was heauie, tough, and not to be seperated, now hauing lost that glewinesse it is light, loose, and euen with a mans foote to be spurnd to ashes, all such grounds are tearmed loose and open grounds, because at no time they doe binde in or imprison the séede (the frost time onely excepted, which is by accidence, and not from the nature of the soyle:) and all such grounds as in their moisture or after the fall of any sodaine raine are soft, plyable, light, and easie to be wrought, but after when they come to loose that moistnesse and that the powerfulnesse of the Sunne hath as it were drid vp their veynes, if then such earths become hard, firme, and not to be seperated, then are those soyles tearmed fast and binding soyles, for if there ardors be not taken in their due times, and their séede cast into them in perfect and due seasons, neither is it possible for the Plowman to plow them, nor for the séede to sprout through, the earth being so fastned and as it were stone-like fixt together. keywords: barly; blacke; chap; clay; close; corne; cut; doe; doth; downe; earth; end; euery; foote; forth; foure; fruit; garden; good; graft; ground; grow; hath; haue; hauing; husbandman; land; manner; manure; mixt; mould; nature; ouer; pease; place; plough; red; rye; sand; set; soile; sort; séede; time; trée; vnderstand; vnto; vpon; vse; wheate; white; worke; yéere cache: 22973.txt plain text: 22973.txt item: #9 of 23 id: 29058 author: Lawson, William, active 1618 title: A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England date: None words: 38035 flesch: 87 summary: {SN: Other trees.} yeeres and vpwards: these trees although come into my possession very euill ordered, mishapen, and one of them wounded to his heart, and that deadly (for I know it will be his death) with a wound, wherein I might haue put my foot in the heart of his bulke (now it is lesse) notwithstanding, with that small regard they haue had since, they so like, that I assure my selfe they are not come to their growth by more then 2. parts of 3. which I discerne not onely by their owne growth, but also by comparing them with the bulke of other trees. keywords: barke; bees; chap; chapter; cut; doe; earth; end; euery; euill; flowers; forme; foure; fruit; garden; good; graft; great; ground; growth; haue; orchard; page; plant; roots; sap; set; stocke; summer; time; trees; vpon; vse; want; water; winter; wood cache: 29058.txt plain text: 29058.txt item: #10 of 23 id: 29951 author: Various title: The Mayflower, January, 1905 date: None words: 817 flesch: 71 summary: WE WILL SEND to every sick and ailing person who writes us, mentioning THE MAYFLOWER, a full-sized =One Dollar= package of =VITAE-ORE=, by mail, =postpaid=, sufficient for one month's treatment, to be paid for within one month's time after receipt, if the receiver can truthfully say that its use has done him or her more good than all the drugs and dopes of quacks or good doctors or patent medicines he or she has ever used. =Send for a $1. package at our risk.= keywords: vitae cache: 29951.txt plain text: 29951.txt item: #11 of 23 id: 32141 author: Various title: Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 date: None words: 23028 flesch: 74 summary: and _C. prostratus_, two common species of the region. But while many of their leaves have the abrupt three-toothed apex of _C. prostratus_, all gradations can be found from this form to the spatulate, toothless leaves of _C. cuneatus_. keywords: american; beauty; book; botany; color; country; cts; dozen; europe; feet; flowers; forest; garden; gray; green; growth; house; illustration; large; little; new; pine; plants; roses; seeds; soil; states; time; trees; water; white; wood; work; years; york cache: 32141.txt plain text: 32141.txt item: #12 of 23 id: 33323 author: Biddle, Violet Purton title: Small Gardens, and How to Make the Most of Them date: None words: 35763 flesch: 76 summary: Good plants of _helleborus niger maximus_ may, however, be bought for half-a-crown; this variety has =very handsome leaves=, and is all the better for a little manure. This is particularly noticeable in such flowers as _delphiniums_, _campanulas_, and _japonica_ anemones. keywords: chapter; colour; course; cut; flowers; foliage; form; free; fruit; garden; good; green; ground; growing; kinds; leaves; light; look; pink; place; plants; red; rockery; room; roots; rose; seeds; small; soil; spring; summer; things; time; trees; variety; water; way; weather; white; winter; year; yellow cache: 33323.txt plain text: 33323.txt item: #13 of 23 id: 35364 author: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title: Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge date: None words: 56058 flesch: 84 summary: Everybody says my mother was pretty, thought poor Ethel Blue, who had been making herself very miserable by her old habit of pretending without any basis of fact, and who now was trying to get a scrap of comfort from the thought that her father had had good taste once and might be trusted to exercise it again. Ethel Blue is speaking for herself, laughed Ethel Brown. keywords: aunt; blue; brown; club; concrete; daisy; day; dicky; dorothy; ethel; ethel blue; ethel brown; father; floor; good; graham; helen; house; james; look; louise; margaret; men; miss; miss graham; morton; mother; mrs; new; people; picture; roger; room; smith; things; think; thought; time; tom; wall; want; water; way; work cache: 35364.txt plain text: 35364.txt item: #14 of 23 id: 39228 author: Anonymous title: Woodbine-Arbor; or, The Little Gardeners: A Story of a Happy Childhood date: None words: 1679 flesch: 72 summary: They had a complete set of garden tools, just the right size for such little folks: spades, hoes, rakes, watering-pots, and a wheelbarrow. Henry made kites, bows, arrows, and other toys, and Charles was quite fond of making and sailing little toy ships, while John, the youngest, liked nothing much better than playing with a ball or trundling his hoop. keywords: arbor; children; garden; parents cache: 39228.txt plain text: 39228.txt item: #15 of 23 id: 39673 author: Bright, Henry Arthur title: A Year in a Lancashire Garden Second Edition date: None words: 26838 flesch: 77 summary: Many white flowers are far more beautiful by day. Among other flowers in rare beauty just now are (as once in the garden of the Sensitive Plant,) Narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess keywords: air; bed; beds; bloom; blossoms; blue; borders; colour; course; day; days; flowers; fruit; garden; good; grass; green; house; leaves; place; plants; poets; rose; scent; spring; summer; sun; sweet; trees; violet; wall; way; white; winter; wood; year; yellow cache: 39673.txt plain text: 39673.txt item: #16 of 23 id: 39993 author: Foster, Olive Hyde title: Gardening for Little Girls date: None words: 31128 flesch: 80 summary: purpurea_) | Purple | | | | | | | Blue | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nasturtium, Tall | Yellows|6 to | |May | Screens and | Sun |July (_Tropæolum | to reds|12 ft.| | | trellises | |to Oct. majus_) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Scarlet Runner |Scarlet |10 to | |April | Screens | Sun |July (_Phaseolus | |12 ft.| |May | | |to frost multiflorus_) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sweet Pea |All |3 to | |March | Train on | |tiny | | |apart | | | |balloons| | | | | | | | | | | | | Balsam Apple |Has |10 ft.| |May | Trellis or | Sun | (_Momordica_) |curious | | |6 in. keywords: 1st |; = =; alyssum |; april |; blue |; coreopsis |; flower |; ft.| |; japanese |; july |; june |; march |; place |; plant |; portulaca |; red |; scarlet |; vine |; | baby; | bed; | border; | good; | half; | indoors; | screens; | season; | sept; | sow; | start; | sun; | |; | |frost; | |oct; | |seed; | |shade; | |spring; |clump |; |may |; |pink |; |purple |; |rockery |; |white |; |yellow | cache: 39993.txt plain text: 39993.txt item: #17 of 23 id: 40183 author: Brooks, Sarah Warner title: A Garden with House Attached date: None words: 27313 flesch: 73 summary: Before I had taken this old-time garden in hand--fashioning new borders, and freeing the old from encumbering jungles--many plants, both annual and perennial, had, no doubt, found place in it as before stated. First and foremost in our collection should stand sweet-scented plants; not only because these impart to our rooms a delicious air of summer, and etherealize the atmosphere of our homes, but also because of their sanitary value, medical authority having distinctly declared that the perfume of growing flowers, exhaling on the in-door air, tends to neutralize fever and other disease-germs. keywords: bed; bloom; border; bulbs; care; chapter; color; day; english; flower; flowering; garden; growing; growth; half; house; lady; leaves; light; like; lily; man; manure; new; perennial; pink; place; plant; rose; seed; soil; spring; summer; sun; sweet; time; water; white; window; winter; years cache: 40183.txt plain text: 40183.txt item: #18 of 23 id: 45946 author: Rexford, Eben E. (Eben Eugene) title: A-B-C of Gardening date: None words: 22957 flesch: 79 summary: If you want to grow good plants in boxes don't form the habit which prevails to a great extent among amateur gardeners--that of applying a small quantity of water whenever you happen to think of it. If this is done you will never grow good plants, for only the surface roots will get the moisture they need. keywords: flowering; flowers; foliage; garden; good; growth; place; plants; pot; roots; season; seed; soil; time; use; water; window; work cache: 45946.txt plain text: 45946.txt item: #19 of 23 id: 48063 author: Paine, Albert Bigelow title: A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls date: None words: 44645 flesch: 89 summary: And won't my pansies come at all? whimpered little Prue. danced little Prue, who was as happy as Davy over the sprouting of the radish. keywords: beautiful; chief; corn; davy; day; family; flowers; gardener; good; green; grow; kinds; leaves; morning; pease; plants; prue; seeds; sun; sweet; things; time; way; white; year cache: 48063.txt plain text: 48063.txt item: #20 of 23 id: 5418 author: Roe, Edward Payson title: The Home Acre date: None words: 56902 flesch: 75 summary: In most instances good plants can be bought for a small sum from nurserymen, who usually offer for sale those that are two years old. You thus insure almost the certainty of good strong plants by autumn; for plants raised as directed are ready to be set out after one season's growth, and by most gardeners are preferred. keywords: acre; autumn; bed; cut; early; fall; feet; fruit; garden; good; ground; grow; growth; home; inches; kinds; light; manure; nature; new; place; planting; plants; roots; season; seed; set; soil; spring; summer; surface; time; trees; varieties; variety; vine; white; winter; wood; year cache: 5418.txt plain text: 5418.txt item: #21 of 23 id: 56162 author: None title: The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, Division 1; A to Car. A Practical and Scientific Encyclopædia of Horticulture date: None words: 284041 flesch: 85 summary: _l._ _l._ cuneated at the base, acutely three-lobed at the top. keywords: = a.; = b.; = bastard; = c.; = cabbage; = ã; a. a.; a. c.; a. h.; a. l.; a. m.; a. p.; a. s.; acuminate; acute; alternate; america; apex; april; august; autumn; b. a.; b. c.; b. h.; b. m.; base; bearing; bell; beneath; black; blue; border; bracts; branches; brazil; bright; broad; calyx; centre; colour; common; compost; cordate; corolla; crimson; cultivation; culture; cuttings; dark; deep; deltoid; diameter; distinct; divisions; downy; drooping; dwarf; early; edge; entire; erect; europe; evergreen; fig; fine; fl.-heads; fleshy; flowering; flowers; foliage; following; form; fronds; fruit; garden; genus; glabrous; glass; good; great; green; greenhouse; greenish; ground; growing; grown; growth; habit; hairy; half; handsome; hardy; heat; high; illustration; india; july; june; l. b.; lanceolate; leaflets; leaves; length; light; like; linear; lines; lip; little; loam; lobed; long; march; margins; mexico; middle; midrib; narrow; new; north; oblong; obovate; obtuse; ones; opposite; orange; ord; outer; ovate; pairs; pale; panicles; peat; pedicels; peduncles; perennial; perianth; petals; petioles; pink; pinnate; pinnules; pinnã; plants; point; pots; purple; purplish; racemes; radical; red; reddish; require; root; rose; rounded; roundish; sand; scales; scaly; scape; scarlet; seeds; segments; sepals; september; sessile; short; shrubs; simple; size; slender; small; smooth; soil; solitary; sori; south; sown; species; spikes; spreading; spring; stem; sti; stove; stove species; sub; summer; surface; syn; synonym; syns; terminal; thick; time; toothed; trees; tropical; tube; varieties; variety; violet; warm; water; white; winter; wood; yellow; young; ¦ = cache: 56162.txt plain text: 56162.txt item: #22 of 23 id: 56526 author: Maryon, Maud title: How the Garden Grew date: None words: 42910 flesch: 87 summary: You had better consult old Griggs about bulbs and such-like. No, Mary, put your best foot foremost and make something of old Griggs and the garden and the five pounds. keywords: autumn; border; bulbs; course; day; flowers; garden; good; green; griggs; jim; look; man; mary; master; new; plants; red; reverence; roots; rose; round; seeds; spring; sweet; things; thought; time; way; white; work; year; yellow cache: 56526.txt plain text: 56526.txt item: #23 of 23 id: 5991 author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth title: The Solitary Summer date: None words: 39309 flesch: 70 summary: It lies due south, sheltered on the north, east, and west by farm buildings, and is rich in those old fruit-trees and well-seasoned gooseberry bushes that make such a good basis for the formation of that most delightful type of little garden, the flower-and-fruit-and-vegetable-mixed sort. This I have been a long while deciding, though I believe I knew all the time somewhere deep down in my heart that they were sweet-peas; and every summer when they first come out, and every time, going round the garden, that I come across them, I murmur involuntarily, Oh yes, _you_ are the sweetest, you dear, dear little things. keywords: afternoon; babies; baby; children; day; days; dear; dinner; end; face; flowers; garden; good; head; house; life; look; love; man; morning; people; place; quiet; room; round; summer; sun; things; time; way; white; woman; world; wrath; years cache: 5991.txt plain text: 5991.txt