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    Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them
    Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them
    Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them
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    Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them

    By Charles Kirk and William Smith

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them - Charles Kirk

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Flowering Shrubs, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Our Flowering Shrubs

      and how to know them

      Author: Anonymous

      Commentator: William Smith

      Illustrator: Charles Kirk

      Release Date: February 16, 2012 [EBook #38904]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR FLOWERING SHRUBS ***

      Produced by Jeroen van Luin, Ben Beasley, jromero and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Gowans’s Nature Books, No. 23

      Our Flowering Shrubs

      and How to Know Them

      Carson & Nicol, Limited Printers, Glasgow

      Blocks by Annan Engraving Co., Ltd. Glasgow

      Berberis Aquifolium, Pursh.

      Holly-leaved Barberry (Mahonia)

      (Flower yellow)

      Mahonia a Feuilles de Houx

      (Fleur jaune)

      Hulst-Sauerdorn

      (Blüte gelb)

      Our

      Flowering

      Shrubs

      and How to Know Them

      Sixty photographs by Charles Kirk

      Gowans & Gray, Ltd.

      5 Robert Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.

      58 Cadogan Street, Glasgow

      1918

      First Edition, August, 1909. Reprinted, May, 1918 (completing 7000).

      The success of Our Trees and How to Know Them has encouraged the publishers to issue the present volume, which deals with a branch of botany practically untouched by handbooks at a moderate price. They trust that lovers of plants will show their appreciation of their efforts by endeavouring to make this new departure very widely known.

      Berberis Darwinii, Hook.

      Darwin’s Barberry

      (Flower yellow)

      Épine-Vinette de Darwin

      (Fleur jaune)

      Darwin’s Sauerdorn

      (Blüte gelb)

      Berberis Stenophylla, Moore

      Narrow-leaved Barberry

      (Flower yellow)

      Épine-Vinette à Feuilles étroites

      (Fleur jaune)

      Schmaler Sauerdorn

      (Blüte gelb)

      Berberis Vulgaris, L.

      Common Barberry

      (Flower pale yellow)

      Épine-Vinette

      (Fleur jaune pâle)

      Gemeiner Sauerdorn

      (Blüte blassgelb)

      Cistus Laurifolius, L.

      Laurel-leaved Cistus

      (Flower white)

      Ciste a Feuilles de Laurier

      (Fleur blanche)

      Lorbeer-Cistrose

      (Blüte weiss)

      Tamarix Pallasii, Desv.

      Pallas’s Tamarisk

      (Flower pink)

      Tamaris de Pallas

      (Fleur rose)

      Fünfmännige Tamariske

      (Blüte rosa)

      Ruta Graveolens, L.

      Common Rue

      (Flower yellow)

      Rue des Jardins

      (Fleur jaune)

      Garten-Raute

      (Blüte gelb)

      Choisya Ternata, H.B.K.

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