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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... frequently see it , the parterre and borders with narrow walks up to the very household entrance : such is decidedly bad taste , unless com- pelled for want of room . For perspicuity , admit that the area to be enclosed should be from ...
... frequently see it , the parterre and borders with narrow walks up to the very household entrance : such is decidedly bad taste , unless com- pelled for want of room . For perspicuity , admit that the area to be enclosed should be from ...
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... frequently what is done now in this operation has to be repeated in the spring , causing , at that time , work to a disadvantage ; because , if pruning , when done just now is accomplished judiciously , whatever more is requisite to be ...
... frequently what is done now in this operation has to be repeated in the spring , causing , at that time , work to a disadvantage ; because , if pruning , when done just now is accomplished judiciously , whatever more is requisite to be ...
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... frequently be ob- served in Flower - gardens , that roses and shrubs of every description are indiscriminately cut with the shears , the Amórphas , Viburnums , and Althèas sharing the same fate . Robinias , Colùteas , Cyticus , Rhús ...
... frequently be ob- served in Flower - gardens , that roses and shrubs of every description are indiscriminately cut with the shears , the Amórphas , Viburnums , and Althèas sharing the same fate . Robinias , Colùteas , Cyticus , Rhús ...
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... frequently allowed to become too crowded with wood , and then superficially sheared or cut . The flowers would be much finer , and the bush handsomer , if they were regularly thinned out , divesting them of all naked and super- fluous ...
... frequently allowed to become too crowded with wood , and then superficially sheared or cut . The flowers would be much finer , and the bush handsomer , if they were regularly thinned out , divesting them of all naked and super- fluous ...
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... frequently very much improve the scenery of the place , become objects of utility as well as ornament , and , in such case , afford the highest sa- tisfaction . When formed so as to exclude offices from the view of the house , or for ...
... frequently very much improve the scenery of the place , become objects of utility as well as ornament , and , in such case , afford the highest sa- tisfaction . When formed so as to exclude offices from the view of the house , or for ...
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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...