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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Rose. The straight standards, cleanly and closely pruned, firmly staked and liberally mulched (blessed be the boy with donkey and cart, who goes to a cheap market, and sells accordingly!); the Manetti Dwarfs, full of vigorous wood-not the stock, but the scion this time; the climbers tastefully Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Rose. The straight standards, cleanly and closely pruned, firmly staked and liberally mulched (blessed be the boy with donkey and cart, who goes to a cheap market, and sells accordingly!); the Manetti Dwarfs, full of vigorous wood-not the stock, but the scion this time; the climbers tastefully trained over ' the bower of Roses by,' dare I say, ' Bendigo's stream,' seeing that the ex-champion was oft an angler in the waters of the Trent, hard by? all these acknowledge the royal supremacy and the loyal love of our second Queen. And think what a refreshment for these working-men on a summer's eve, when their hot work is done, or on silent Sabbaths, when there is no work to do, ' to sit 'mong the Roses and hear the birds sing'-songs of praise, and comfort, and hope! Meanwhile they have a foretaste of this gladness in the glass-houses which I went to see. Houses1. why, a full-sized giant would have taken them up like a hand-glass; and even I, but a small office- boy in connection with that great business,1 wasunable in most of them to stand upright, and into some to enter at all. That ' bit o' glass' had been, nevertheless, as much a dream, and hope, and happiness to its owner as the Crystal Palace to Paxton. How often the very thought and expectation of it had soothed and relieved his weariness as he worked at his stocking-frame! How the reality had refreshed, refined him, in his brief, bright holiday hours! There is a timber-yard on the left as you leave Nottingham, travelling upon the Derby road, and therein the framework of a neat miniature greenhouse, thus described upon a board affixed to it:- 1 One of the first of many delicious stories which it was my privilege to hear Mr Thackeray tell, was, that once upon a time he and Mr. Higgins ('Jacob Books, , Book-about-Roses-How-to-Grow-and-Show-Them~~Samuel-Reynolds-Hole, 999999999, A Book about Roses; How to Grow and Show Them, Samuel Reynolds Hole, 0217147275, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 0217147275

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ISBN: 9780217147279

A Book About Roses How to Grow and Show Them Author :Samuel Reynolds Hole 9780217147279 0217147275

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