. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 8 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. the green-leaved. It will grow anywhere, but needs a good place to display its beauty. When eryngos flower, autumn has come, and Nature prepares to strew with leaves the pathway on which Winter will steal with noiseless tread upon us. Hartley Coleridge caught the idea, and thus he sang of it:— " The mellow year is hastening to its close; The little birds have almost sung their last, Their small notes twitter in the dreary Wast— That shrill-piped harbinger of early snows; The patient beauty of
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 8 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. the green-leaved. It will grow anywhere, but needs a good place to display its beauty. When eryngos flower, autumn has come, and Nature prepares to strew with leaves the pathway on which Winter will steal with noiseless tread upon us. Hartley Coleridge caught the idea, and thus he sang of it:— " The mellow year is hastening to its close; The little birds have almost sung their last, Their small notes twitter in the dreary Wast— That shrill-piped harbinger of early snows; The patient beauty of the scentless rose, Oft with the morn's hoar crystal quaintly glassed, Hangs, a pale mourner for the summer past, And makes a little summer where it grows : In the chill sunbeam of the faint brief day The dusky waters shudder as they shine, The russet leaves obstruct the straggling way Of oozy brooks, which no deep banks define, And the gaunt woods, in ragged, scant array, Wrap their old limbs with sombre ivy ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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