. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 136.âCorja Salad. FiG. Burnet. P,^ rs^.-Oxalis. to me, and is in my opinion utterly worthless ; it should be exter- minated from a garden as a useless weed. Some persons, however, never like a salad without it. One of my pretty glen plants, the Oxalis Acetosella, or Shamrock (%â 137), is said to make a delicate salad. Its flowers are so beautiful that it is one of the loveliest objects in spring. In some woods-as in the Arncliff-e woods in Yorkshire-it c
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 136.âCorja Salad. FiG. Burnet. P,^ rs^.-Oxalis. to me, and is in my opinion utterly worthless ; it should be exter- minated from a garden as a useless weed. Some persons, however, never like a salad without it. One of my pretty glen plants, the Oxalis Acetosella, or Shamrock (%â 137), is said to make a delicate salad. Its flowers are so beautiful that it is one of the loveliest objects in spring. In some woods-as in the Arncliff-e woods in Yorkshire-it covers the ground, but with me i is a delicate plant, from which we can only spare one or two leaves at a time, to taste the exquisite acidulous flavour which it possesses. In France, Dandelion leaves {Taraxacum Dens Leonis) are much employed as a salad, though they are but rarely used by Englishmen. From the influx of foreigners during the siege of Paris, there was a sale for It in Covent Garden market. Dr. Hogg procured for the Horti- cultural Society some seed from plants which had been continuously selected for five years. Specimens of the plants, with leaves of large size and of mild flavour, were exhibited in i8;i. Both Dr. Hogg and. 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 Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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