Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 211
possess a rosewhich would become a vine, that he mightmake wine from his roses ! We have seena rose-bush which the happy possessor tri-umphantly assured us had not flowered forfive years. Lucky man ! but still more luckywould he be if next year it would bear noleaves ! A horticulturist of no mean… … THE HORTICULTURIST. 125 The curate of Palaiseau lived to the age of eighty-two. He died in the beginningof spring, just at the time of the year when he would have enjoyed, for the sixtiethtime, the precious collection of flowers that it had been the occupation of his life toform. A few years ago,…
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