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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... heat . The sooner the plants are potted off after they are rooted the better . " Such instructions to the inexperienced , are im- perfect and unavailing , which , we flatter ourselves , is not the character that will attach to the ...
... heat . The sooner the plants are potted off after they are rooted the better . " Such instructions to the inexperienced , are im- perfect and unavailing , which , we flatter ourselves , is not the character that will attach to the ...
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... heat and excessive cold . Where choice of aspects can be ob- tained , preference should be given to a south - east or east ; but , if not , south or south - west , and if possible , sheltered by rising ground or full grown woods from ...
... heat and excessive cold . Where choice of aspects can be ob- tained , preference should be given to a south - east or east ; but , if not , south or south - west , and if possible , sheltered by rising ground or full grown woods from ...
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... 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 vegetative purity of the soil , and proving destructive to the seeds . Allowing the manure to ...
... 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 vegetative purity of the soil , and proving destructive to the seeds . Allowing the manure to ...
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... heat arises , covering them at night with mats or shutters . As soon as you feel the heat increased , give air by tilting the sashes a few inches to let off the steam and stagnated air , observing to close in the afternoon , and cover ...
... heat arises , covering them at night with mats or shutters . As soon as you feel the heat increased , give air by tilting the sashes a few inches to let off the steam and stagnated air , observing to close in the afternoon , and cover ...
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... heat of summer . A wet day need cause no loss of time : prepare rods , bands , and tallies , to be in readiness when required . Many in the height of bustle , never finish properly as they proceed , which is the worst of practices ...
... heat of summer . A wet day need cause no loss of time : prepare rods , bands , and tallies , to be in readiness when required . Many in the height of bustle , never finish properly as they proceed , which is the worst of practices ...
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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...