Vita Sackville-Westさんのイラストまとめ

Perhaps Gerard was quoting Epictetus who writing in the 1st century remarks that the more firmly deluded is a madman the more hellebore he needs.
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It can avert lightening and thunderbolts, witchcraft and sorcery; it can extinguish fire; it can discover gold buried in the earth; It can cure ulcers and epilepsy; it can stimulate fertility in women and cattle.
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A particularly pleasing one recently arrived from Naples. It contained an appendix giving the English names for some common plants, and as most were new to me, I thought I might transcribe them.

I pick from its pages a few of the less technical facts which I always find so fascinating. It is odd for instance that Shakespeare should never have mentioned the snowdrop, he who lived to bejewel his poetry with the names of our simple flowers. https://t.co/JLLxgSSuC5

It tells the specialist all that he could want to know and tells the amateur a good deal more than he can be bothered to cope with. In this case I am thinking about the snowdrops and the snowflakes. https://t.co/lzWv9t74qX

The hardy vines also make very good pot plants. A fruiting vine hung with bunches. . . as pretty a sight as you could wish to see: it reminds one of some Italian paintings and brings a suggestion of Mediterranean countries into our northern land. https://t.co/5hnBa2DLRe

[Some Flowers'37] Like the other members of its family, the stateliest of them all—Fritillaria imperialis, the Crown Imperial—has the habit of hanging its head so that you have to turn it up towards before you can see into it at all. https://t.co/p2wGuA4NGG

It is simply a distinction popularly made between Trumpet and Flat-face. This is putting it very crudely but for practical purposes it will serve.
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They resemble the old briar Austrian Copper, well known to rose-lovers but often their despair, owing to its tendency to black spot and die back. https://t.co/tfDgvOt2cC

I suppose her alleged femininity is due to her elegance and neatness, with her little white shirt so jimply tucked inside her striped jacket; but she is really more like a slender boy, a slim little officer dressed in a parti-coloured uniform of the Renaissance.