The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespear by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (top 20 books to read txt) 📖

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ON THE ART OF GARDENING: A Plea for English Gardens of the Future, with Practical Hints for Planting Them. By Mrs. J. Francis Foster.

Press Notices.

"In this pleasant and original little book the authoress not only enters a vigorous protest against the bedding-out system and the so-called 'natural' style of gardening, but gives very good practical advice for gardens of a different sort."—Gardener's Chronicle.

"This little book proceeds from a true lover of flowers and will be welcome to all who take an interest in their care and culture."—Civilian.

"A pleasant and unpretending little volume."—Saturday Review.

"The charm consists in its author's evident love of her subject. Like a true lover she has gone far and wide in her search for old plants and old plant lore. We agree with Mrs. Foster that the most perfect herbaceous border is one that has an old wall behind it. Blue larkspurs and white lilies, roses, phloxes, and evening primroses never look so well as when they are seen against a background of wall, mellowed with age and clothed with its beautiful garment of wall-growing seedlings. . . . Mrs. Foster's book, too, is most useful in its lists of flowers that bloomed in the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare. She also devotes one chapter entirely to quotations from old poets on gardens and all the delights that spring from them. If it helps her readers to know for themselves those authors, who found among the flowers of the garden apt similes of all that is truest in human nature, she will have added a very substantial addition to the pleasure already enjoyed by those who love gardens, but yet are unfamiliar with the pages of the poets who knew well how to speak their praises."—Spectator.

"A pleasant book."—Athenæum.

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IN THE COUNTRY: Essays by the Rev. M. G. Watkins, M.A.

Contents.

Devon Lanes and their Associations—At the Sea Side—Among the Heather—Up Glenroy—In Assynt—Into Ballad Land—On the Ottery East Hill—Among the Sea Birds—From the heart of the Wolds—Sunshine at the Land's End—Birds and Bird Lovers—Etc.

Third Edition. Crown 8vo, with Autotype portrait and twelve full-page Illustrations engraved by Edmund Evans. Cloth, top edge gilt. Price 7s. 6d.

MY LIFE AS AN ANGLER. By William Henderson, Author of "The Folk-lore of the Northern Counties."

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THE CHRONICLE OF "THE COMPLEAT ANGLER," of ISAAK WALTON and CHARLES COTTON: being a bibliographical record of its various editions and mutations. By Thomas Westwood and Thomas Satchell.

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POEMS. By May Probyn.

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A BALLAD OF THE ROAD AND OTHER POEMS. By May Probyn.

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GODS, SAINTS, AND MEN. By Eugene Lee-Hamilton. With ten full-page Illustrations designed by Enrico Mazzanti.

"Readers will find him, as before, a Browning without his obscurity."—Graphic.

"Quaint, mediæval legends and traditions, most of which have a strong savour of the supernatural, in strong tuneful artistic verse."—Scotsman.

"The book is very prettily got up; . . . . some of the woodcuts are admirable in design and execution."—London Review.

"Worthy of a place in any library whose owner values originality and unconventional treatment of out-of-the-way themes."—Derby Mercury.

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THE FLYING DUTCHMAN AND OTHER POEMS. By E. M. Clerke.

"Her translations from the Italian are exceedingly happy."—Westminster Review.

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LIFE'S PATHWAY. By Thomas Leech, Constable in the Metropolitan Police.

"A man of much literary ability and considerable poetical fancy."—Notes and Queries.

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ROUND A POSADA FIRE. By Mrs. S. G. C. Middlemore. With 21 Illustrations by Miss E. D. Hale.

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TUSCAN FAIRY TALES. Taken down from the Mouths of the People. By Vernon Lee.

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BELCARO: Essays on Æsthetics. By Vernon Lee.

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STUDIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN ITALY. By Vernon Lee.