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sensitivefern · 8 years ago

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Mowing the grass once a fortnight in pleasure grounds, as now practised, is a costly mistake. We want shaven carpets of grass here and there, but what nonsense it is to shave it as often as foolish men shave their faces! There are indeed places where they boast of mowing forty acres! Who would not rather see the waving grass with countless flowers than a close surface without a blossom? Think of the labour wasted in this ridiculous work of cutting the heads off flowers and grass. Let much of the grass grow till fit to cut for hay, and we may enjoy it in a world of lovely flowers that will blossom and perfect their growth before hay time...

[William Robinson]

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Essays have also given us much concern. Practically all of the essayists who flourish in the United States devote themselves to whimsical fluff in imitation of Charles Lamb – stuff that is poor in ideas and conventional in execution. We have tried hard to find and encourage writers with more to say, but so far without much success. However, even in this bleak field we have unearthed an occasional piece of sound quality – for example Stephen Ta Van’s ‘Tante Manhattan’ and Thomas Beer’s ‘The Rural Soul’ and ‘The Mauve Decade’ – and we have hopes of doing much better hereafter.

In the field of the short story we believe that we have presented a great deal of genuinely first-rate work. The stories we print are not reprinted in the annual anthologies issued by admirers of the late O. Henry, but in a good many cases the authors of them – for example, Mr. Hecht, Sherwood Anderson and F. Scott Fitzgerald – have later shown their quality by brilliant successes in the larger form of the novel.

[H.L. Mencken]

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Through the witch Samuel tells Saul that he will lose his kingdom and also his life. This is indeed occult cosmology... [...] And now to illustrate the influence of literal scripture upon the human mind, and history, let us quote the eminent legal authority, William Blackstone, who in 1765 said: ‘To deny the possibility, nay actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament’. Thus on the authority of ‘the word of God’ this eminent jurist poured legal oil on the fires of religious fanaticism. On the same authority, Pope Innocent VII in 1484 issued his famous ‘Witch Bull’, authorizing women, who should have been sent to psychiatrists, to be burned at the stake. In two years, 1515 and 1516, the Catholic Church burned over five hundred Protestant witches. A thing of the past, you say, so why recall it? Yes, witch-burning is past, but not the witch-burning mentality. There are still with us priests who would burn in boiling oil the dissident Protestants – modern Torquemadas without an Inquisition. Though of the atomic age, they still believe in witches, pacts with the devil, and the literal ‘word of God’.

[Deceptions and Myths of the Bible]

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Muscari, Hyancinthus, Veltheimia, and Lachenalia can be propagated from... leaf cuttings. A mature, vigorous, still green leaf is cut from the bulb. A complete leaf can be cut into two or three pieces. Each is placed... in a peat moss and sand rooting medium, with the lower edge buried a couple of inches below the surface. Keep moist – high humidity and bottom heat are both necessary. In two weeks to a month, small bulblets will form on the bottom of the leaf, after which they can be planted...

[Bulbs for Garden Habitats]

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Centaurea The ‘Sultan of Constantinople’ was a fan... ‘I’ am a fan of the Florence Mix... also recommended: ‘Garnet’... the basket flower (Centaurea americana) ‘is hardly seen in North American gardens, although it is produced as a cut flower by growers around the world’... they reach a yard in height, or higher; ‘Jolly Joker’ is the standard cultivar...

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Hacquetia epipactis Zones 4-9... flowers early... to 8 in. ... cold-stratify for 3 weeks; sow and keep close to 55°... sow indoors 10 weeks before last expected frost, or sow fresh seed in autumn – on surface... sun/shade... divide plants in spring...

butterfly lily, garland lily, ginger lily | Hedychium This half-hardy perennial will, of course, be grown as an annual in your area; lift rhizomes in fall and store in cool, dry place... the foliage is deemed to be highly ornamental, while the flowers are pleasant to the nostrils; plants reach as high as 12 ft. ...

French honeysuckle, sulla clover | Hedysarum Zones 4-9, it is said, but, all in all, they would prefer a more Portlandia climate... cut plants to the ground in autumn... propagate by dividing in spring or fall; also, root cuttings...

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