FLOWER GARDEN DIRECTORY:

CONTAINING

PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTURE OF PLANTS

IN THE

FLOWER GARDEN, HOT-HOUSE, GREEN-HOUSE, ROOMS,
OR PARLOUR WINDOWS,

FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR.

WITH

A Description of the Plants most desirable in each, the Nature of the Soil, and Situation
best adapted to their Growth, the proper Season for Transplanting, &c.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ERECTING A

HOT-HOUSE, GREEN-HOUSE, AND LAYING OUT A
FLOWER GARDEN.

ALSO,

Table of Soils most congenial to the Plants contained in the Work.

THE WHOLE ADAPTED

To either Large or Small Gardens, with instructions for preparing the Soil, Propagating,
Planting, Pruning, Training, and Fruiting the

GRAPE VINE.

With Descriptions of the best Sorts for cultivating in the open Air.

SECOND EDITION, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS.

Forvard Olage Library
July 1, 1914.
Bequest of

Georgina Lovil. Putnam

Lan 2128 39
Lan2808.39.3

36843

ENTERED, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by CAREY & HART, in the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

NAB
1800

636

1839

PREFACE

TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THIS Volume owes its existence principally to the repeated requests of a number of our fair patrons, and amateur supporters, whose inquiries and wishes for a practical manual on Floraculture, at last induced us to prepare a work on the subject. That now offered is given unaffectedly and simply as a plain and easy treatise on this increasingly interesting subject. It will at once be perceived that there are no pretensions to literary claims-the directions are given in the simplest manner-the arrangement made as lucidly as was in our powerand the whole is presented with the single wish of its being practically useful. How far our object has been attained, of course our readers must judge. Nothing has been intentionally concealed; and all that is asserted is the result of minute observation, close application, and an extended continuous experience from childhood. We pretend not to infallibility, and are not so sanguine as to declare our views the most perfect that can be attained. But we can so far say, that the practice here recommended has been found very successful.

Some very probably may be disappointed in not having the means of propagating as clearly deli