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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... eight inches of the bottom soil dug out in a concave manner , and in the centre of the concave dig out a trench of about nine inches square to form a drain , which may be made with brick or filled with rough stone , and the concave may ...
... eight inches of the bottom soil dug out in a concave manner , and in the centre of the concave dig out a trench of about nine inches square to form a drain , which may be made with brick or filled with rough stone , and the concave may ...
Page 13
... eight glass . In the framing ground should be kept the various soils required for plants , and also various characters of manure at all times ready for use , the whole in regular heaps , and kept free from weeds . Having given these ...
... eight glass . In the framing ground should be kept the various soils required for plants , and also various characters of manure at all times ready for use , the whole in regular heaps , and kept free from weeds . Having given these ...
Page 20
... eight feet apart ; the larger , or taller sorts , ten to twenty feet , according to the condition of the soil . Thick masses of shrubbery , called thickets , are sometimes wanted . In these there should be plenty of evergreens . A mass ...
... eight feet apart ; the larger , or taller sorts , ten to twenty feet , according to the condition of the soil . Thick masses of shrubbery , called thickets , are sometimes wanted . In these there should be plenty of evergreens . A mass ...
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... eight or ten days . If any of it has become dry and musty from ex- cessive heat , as you proceed , water the affected parts , pile all up neatly , and leave it protected in part as before . In five or six days more , it will have to be ...
... eight or ten days . If any of it has become dry and musty from ex- cessive heat , as you proceed , water the affected parts , pile all up neatly , and leave it protected in part as before . In five or six days more , it will have to be ...
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... eight , ten , or twelve inches deep , according to the length of the plants . Afterwards take the plants , and cut the tops . even , with the knife or shears , at the same time shortening the roots . Then with the left hand next the ...
... eight , ten , or twelve inches deep , according to the length of the plants . Afterwards take the plants , and cut the tops . even , with the knife or shears , at the same time shortening the roots . Then with the left hand next the ...
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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...