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The book of cut flowers; a complete guide to the preparing, arranging, and preserving of flowers for decorative purposes - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...are remarkable for their extraordinary vitality. For table decoration, for instance, plants can be taken out of pots, the lower portion of the bulbs with the root cut away and afterwards returned to the pots, to do duty again in the greenhouse. Though best cut when colour is just showing, which secures their standing the longest time, the tulip having more than one period of beauty, may be grown in pots to full expansion, then cut and used for vase furnishing. The varieties of late flowering tulips are very numerous. The quaintest of these is the Parrot, which was a favourite with painters of the eighteenth century. It looks best when allowed to sprawl about at its own sweet will, no attempt being made to cause it to stand upright. Bizarres and Byblcemens are also very old, and none is more lovely than some of the latter, called Rose Bybloemens. By floral decorators they are, perhaps, not esteemed; but, nevertheless, for domestic purposes, they should not be overlooked. Selected breeders, of which Golden Eagle, a verv old variety, and others of the now well-known gesneriana type, are all useful. Some are very tall, quite four feet, and these are invaluable for certain purposes. Some, as the above named, are early to bloom. Some are late, as maerospila. They vary, too, in form. Bouton d'or, for instance, is nearly globular, Picotee is sharp-pointed, ixioides is somewhat oval. The finest of the self-coloured forms are to be found in the Darwin section, in which some of the colours are very soft and pleasing, others very dark, or almost black, like the Chimney-Sweeper, mentioned by Rea in 1656. With a good selection of these, it is possible to provide charming arrangements, either of one colour or mixed. They are best cut with as long stems as possible, removi...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151249939
- ISBN 13 9781151249937
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages80
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