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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... inch in diameter , rounding at the end , with which draw a circle from four to nine inches in diameter , and from one - eighth of an inch to an inch deep , according to the size of the seeds . Many very small seeds will grow best , if ...
... inch in diameter , rounding at the end , with which draw a circle from four to nine inches in diameter , and from one - eighth of an inch to an inch deep , according to the size of the seeds . Many very small seeds will grow best , if ...
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... inches in diameter . A. Hallèri , blue ; A. pulsatilla , blue pasque flower ; A. alpina , large white . These are fine plants , and are now given to a genus called Pulsatil- la . A. palmèta flòre - plèno , yellow ; A. stellàta ...
... inches in diameter . A. Hallèri , blue ; A. pulsatilla , blue pasque flower ; A. alpina , large white . These are fine plants , and are now given to a genus called Pulsatil- la . A. palmèta flòre - plèno , yellow ; A. stellàta ...
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... ; two species , H. fúlva and H. gra- minea , flower well , and are remarkable among the border flowers for their large yellow or copper - coloured corollas , some of them about six inches diameter ; bloom from 40 [ March . PERENNIALS .
... ; two species , H. fúlva and H. gra- minea , flower well , and are remarkable among the border flowers for their large yellow or copper - coloured corollas , some of them about six inches diameter ; bloom from 40 [ March . PERENNIALS .
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... inches diameter ; bloom from May to July , and will grow in almost any soil . There is a plant known in our gardens as H. cœrùlea , which is Fúnkia cœrù- lea , and has a campanulate corolla , with a cylindrical tube ... inches diameter; ...
... inches diameter ; bloom from May to July , and will grow in almost any soil . There is a plant known in our gardens as H. cœrùlea , which is Fúnkia cœrù- lea , and has a campanulate corolla , with a cylindrical tube ... inches diameter; ...
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... inches in diameter , in conical spikes from two to four feet long , arising from the centre of the plant , containing frequently from two to four hundred florets . They are principally native plants . Y. stricta is the freest flowerer ...
... inches in diameter , in conical spikes from two to four feet long , arising from the centre of the plant , containing frequently from two to four hundred florets . They are principally native plants . Y. stricta is the freest flowerer ...
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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...