"Floricultural" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of giving books of poetry, novels, etc., what may be described as floricultural titles, has landed cataloguers into an astonishing number and variety of errors, some of which have been pointed out by Mr. B. Daydon Jackson in the Bibliographer. The chief sinners have been foreign bibliographers, who, not being able to examine ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts
... wine, by Mr. Cuthill Root, crops on clay, by Mr. Wortley Royal Botanic Society, report of exhibition Seeding, advantages of drill Siphocampylus betulifolius Societies, proceedings of the Horticultural, Linnean, National Floricultural, Agricultural of England Sparkenhoe Farmers' Club Statistics, agricultural, by Mr. Watson Swamps, to drain, by Mr. Dumolo Tulips, Groom's Vegetables, culture of Water-pipe coating, by Dr. Angus Smith Winter, effects of, by Mr. Whiting ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various
... lot maintain that the plant is a "Sport" from an old purchase of their own. Bless you, they claim all the good stocks—always did. Who cares? My young floricultural friend, JOE of Birmingham, who knows a bit about fruits as well as concerning orchids, let me tell you,—JOE, I say, laughs their preposterous pretensions to scorn. Look at G-SCH-N's own particular plant there—a bit late, but very promising, and probably ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, June 20, 1891 • Various |
