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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... keeping some of the bulbs until this month , in order to have a continued succession . Experience will prove the ... keep tolerably , if gently covered with leaves or litter , using means to secure them from being blown over the ...
... keeping some of the bulbs until this month , in order to have a continued succession . Experience will prove the ... keep tolerably , if gently covered with leaves or litter , using means to secure them from being blown over the ...
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... keep in regular order , than those to which the knife can be freely applied ; but good management while young will ensure handsome free flower- ing plants . Climbing shrubs , and others that are trained against out- buildings , walls ...
... keep in regular order , than those to which the knife can be freely applied ; but good management while young will ensure handsome free flower- ing plants . Climbing shrubs , and others that are trained against out- buildings , walls ...
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... Keep them always dis- tinct , one from another , in order that they may be the better shown off . But , if it is not desired that they should be thicker planted than it is intended to let them remain , the small growing kinds may be six ...
... Keep them always dis- tinct , one from another , in order that they may be the better shown off . But , if it is not desired that they should be thicker planted than it is intended to let them remain , the small growing kinds may be six ...
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... keep it from being inundated . The manure must be built up square and level , shaking , mixing , and beating it regularly with the back of the fork . When you have it to the desired height , ( from two to three feet will be sufficient ...
... keep it from being inundated . The manure must be built up square and level , shaking , mixing , and beating it regularly with the back of the fork . When you have it to the desired height , ( from two to three feet will be sufficient ...
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... keeping it to a proper height , namely , about one inch higher than the side of the walk ; but the taste of the operator will best de- cide , according to the situation . Rake the surface even , and tread it down with the feet , or beat ...
... keeping it to a proper height , namely , about one inch higher than the side of the walk ; but the taste of the operator will best de- cide , according to the situation . Rake the surface even , and tread it down with the feet , or beat ...
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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...