Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new (1908)
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, bart., 1845-, Wilson, Mary G. W., illus · London, E. Arnold · leaf 165
villea Delavayi, not usually considered patient ofexcessive wet and cold, flourishing here as luxuriantlyas anywhere, spreading into large patches and bearingquantities of its large, gloxinia-like blossoms. Along the lake margin of yellow sand, iris, spiraea,and other water-loving plants make a… … oo COKROUE conditions of exposure and soil which are fatal toother trees. It revels in as much wind as it canget, and is able to digest the humic acid in peat,which is so unfavourable to the health of most trees.All this part of the ground may be termed wildgarden, inasmuch as flowering exotics…
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