The American Flower Garden Directory: Containing Practical Directions for the Culture of Plants in the Flower Garden, Hot-house, Garden-house, Rooms, Or Parlour Windows, for Every Month in the Year ... 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 |
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Page 50
... drained with shivers or fine gravel . Give them plenty of air , other- wise they will be weak in growth . Primroses and Daisies may be planted out in shady situa- tions ; the sun destroys them during summer if exposed . • AURICULAS ...
... drained with shivers or fine gravel . Give them plenty of air , other- wise they will be weak in growth . Primroses and Daisies may be planted out in shady situa- tions ; the sun destroys them during summer if exposed . • AURICULAS ...
Page 166
... drained . ( Soil No. 1 . ) * Ardísias , about eighteen species . Plants highly esteemed for the beauty of their foliage , flowers , and berries . The most popular in our collections is A. crenulata . It has rose- coloured star - like ...
... drained . ( Soil No. 1 . ) * Ardísias , about eighteen species . Plants highly esteemed for the beauty of their foliage , flowers , and berries . The most popular in our collections is A. crenulata . It has rose- coloured star - like ...
Page 167
... , flowers in spikes of a yellow colour ; foliage large and silvery like ; the pots should be well drained . ( Soil No. 9. ) Barringtonias , two species . B. speciòsa has produced a May . ] 167 HOT - HOUSE . — OF REPOTTING , & C .
... , flowers in spikes of a yellow colour ; foliage large and silvery like ; the pots should be well drained . ( Soil No. 9. ) Barringtonias , two species . B. speciòsa has produced a May . ] 167 HOT - HOUSE . — OF REPOTTING , & C .
Page 174
... drained . ( Soil No. 9. ) Cérberas . About twelve species of strong growing trees , full of poisonous juice . C. thevètia is an elegant plant , with accuminate leaves , and large , nodding , yellow , solitary , fra- grant flowers ...
... drained . ( Soil No. 9. ) Cérberas . About twelve species of strong growing trees , full of poisonous juice . C. thevètia is an elegant plant , with accuminate leaves , and large , nodding , yellow , solitary , fra- grant flowers ...
Page 180
... drained . ( Soil No. 13. ) Geissomèria longiflòra . This is a new genus , and closely allied to Ruéllia . The species alluded to , is a free flowerer , blooming from January to May , in close spikes of a scarlet colour ; leaves opposite ...
... drained . ( Soil No. 13. ) Geissomèria longiflòra . This is a new genus , and closely allied to Ruéllia . The species alluded to , is a free flowerer , blooming from January to May , in close spikes of a scarlet colour ; leaves opposite ...
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appearance beautiful begin to grow bipinnated bloom blue blush bright buds bulbs Camellias centre Chasselas closely set collections colour corolla covered crimson cultivated dark deciduous double flower Drain the pots dwarf earth easy culture esteemed evergreen feet finest flowering plants foliage four inches fragrance frequently frost fruit genus give glass globular graft grandiflora green green-house ground grow freely growth habit half hardy heat herbaceous hot-house imbricated inches inches in diameter insect keep lanceolate last month light lilac Magnificent manure Noisette observed ovate pale panicles perfect perfectly double petals pink plants produce pruning pure white purple repotted require rich rieties roots rose sashes scarlet scarlet flowers season seed shade showy shrubs situation Soil species spikes spotted stamens stem striped strong summer superb sweet-scented syringing three inches tion tree umbels varieties vine weather white flowers winter wood yellow young shoots
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Page 294 - There is also a long low table covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by workmen, who sit round it: the iron pan being heated to a certain degree by a little fire made in the furnace underneath, a few pounds of the...
Page 173 - ... species, which should be repotted once in two years, and never be allowed to shrink for want of moisture. The operation of grafting is very simple, merely requiring an incision to be made, and fitting in it a fresh cutting of another kind, holding the cutting stationary in the incision half a minute, till the juices of the two adhere together, when it may be said the union is effected, and, in a few weeks, the new branches will grow freely. We have seen the Mamrr.illaria tribe growing neatly...