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The flower-garden display'd: in above four hundred curious representations of the most beautiful flowers, regularly dispos'd in the respective months of their blossom, curiously engrav'd on copper-plates from the designs of Mr. Furber and others, and coloured to the life: with the description and history of each plant and the method of their culture, whether in stoves, green-houses, hot-beds... ; very useful, not only for the curious in gardening, but the prints likewise for painters, carvers, japaners, &c. also for the ladies
(1732)
A short explanation of the most difficult terms which are made use of in this book
A SHORT EXPLANATION OF The moft DI PFI CU LT TE RM S which are made ufe of in this BOOK. PEX, Apices, Chives, the fimall Knobs that grow on the fne A 'hreads or Stamina of the Flower. Bulbs, Roots that are round, and wrapped with feveral Skins or Coats, like an Onion. Bulbous, Having Onion-Roots, or Bulbs. Catkins, or Juli, Small duf/y Sub/fances, which are found in Janu- ary, on Hazels, Poplars, &c. Caps of the Buds, -The leajy Subftances that inclfe them. Duft of a Flower, Found on the Leaves of the Auricula, &c. and on the Apices of fome Flowers; which latter is very deferentfromn the former, and is thought to caz/ Fruitfiulnf. Expofure, The Pojtion of a Wall or Bank, with repe to the Sun: Thus, a Warm Expofure fignfes, where the Sun may come very much. Fibres, Small 'Threads, or Strings, which grow about the Root of any Plant. Petals, Leaves of a Flower; fo call'd, to djlingujh them from the green Leaves of the Plant. Piftillum, A fmall Thread, or Stamen, with an Apex on the 'Top of it, growing out of the Seminary Fef§els, exailly in the Center of fome Flowers, as the Lilly, &c. Powder'd, Cover'd with Du/i. Spikes, Trups or Bunches, when the Flowers grow in fuch a man- ner as to/firm an Acute Cone. Thrums, Apices or Chives, when a great Number of thcm grow to- gether in a Flower. Truffes, Bunches of F!owers, when many Bloms grow in a Chkfier on one Stalk. Tuberous-rooted, Having the Root full of Knots or Knobs. 1BOOKS a
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