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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... five to seven feet long , and from three to four feet wide , and filled with six by 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 ...
... five to seven feet long , and from three to four feet wide , and filled with six by 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 ...
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... five or six days more , it will have to be turned again , repeating it until the first extreme heat has been over . In neglect of this , the heat , after making up the bed , will be vehement for a week or two , frequently destroying the ...
... five or six days more , it will have to be turned again , repeating it until the first extreme heat has been over . In neglect of this , the heat , after making up the bed , will be vehement for a week or two , frequently destroying the ...
Page 38
... or resin , which exhales in vapour , and in a dark place may be seen to take fire . Its flowers are red , those of the other white , in loose terminale spikes ; the flower has five petals , clawed 38 [ March . PERENNIALS .
... or resin , which exhales in vapour , and in a dark place may be seen to take fire . Its flowers are red , those of the other white , in loose terminale spikes ; the flower has five petals , clawed 38 [ March . PERENNIALS .
Page 39
... five petals , clawed and un- equal , with glandular dots ; in bloom from May to July ; de- lights in sandy loam . Dodecatheon . This is a native genus , and commonly called American cowslip . The generic term , a name of the Ro- mans ...
... five petals , clawed and un- equal , with glandular dots ; in bloom from May to July ; de- lights in sandy loam . Dodecatheon . This is a native genus , and commonly called American cowslip . The generic term , a name of the Ro- mans ...
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... five inch pots may be put into eight inch . Give a gentle watering after repotting . Pinks do not require the pots so large , but the same treatment in every other respect . Where the extremity of the leaves are decayed , cut them off ...
... five inch pots may be put into eight inch . Give a gentle watering after repotting . Pinks do not require the pots so large , but the same treatment in every other respect . Where the extremity of the leaves are decayed , cut them off ...
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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...