Note 39 — VI. Report upon the New or Rare Plants which flowered in the Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, between March, 1825, and March, 1826. Part 1. Tender Plants. By John Lindley, Esq. ◊ (continued 3)
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Elderly persons may recollect how often the girls who worked at tambouring were crooked: the present fashionable amusement of embroidering seems to have, in some instances, the same effect.