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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... leaves , or what is more advisable , banked with turf - the former being a harbour for mice and other ver- min . For full directions , see December . Under this head the plants , such as Auriculas , Polyanthus , Daisies , Car- nations ...
... leaves , or what is more advisable , banked with turf - the former being a harbour for mice and other ver- min . For full directions , see December . Under this head the plants , such as Auriculas , Polyanthus , Daisies , Car- nations ...
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... leaves and litter of every description that have been brought or blown into the garden during autumn or winter . OF FRAMING . Where it is desired to have the more showy annuals early in bloom , it is necessary to prepare a hot - bed ...
... leaves and litter of every description that have been brought or blown into the garden during autumn or winter . OF FRAMING . Where it is desired to have the more showy annuals early in bloom , it is necessary to prepare a hot - bed ...
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... leaves or litter . Cantua coronopifolia , flowers in August and September , beau- tiful scarlet , delights in dry gravelly soil . Ipomopsis elegans . Campanula siberia , Blue Siberian , Bell flower , flowers in July and August ...
... leaves or litter . Cantua coronopifolia , flowers in August and September , beau- tiful scarlet , delights in dry gravelly soil . Ipomopsis elegans . Campanula siberia , Blue Siberian , Bell flower , flowers in July and August ...
Page 35
... leaves , terminated by spikes of blue , yellow , or white flowers , similar to a hood ; hence the name of Monk's Hood is often applied to them . They are scarce in collections ; but , in a few years , we have no doubt but many of them ...
... leaves , terminated by spikes of blue , yellow , or white flowers , similar to a hood ; hence the name of Monk's Hood is often applied to them . They are scarce in collections ; but , in a few years , we have no doubt but many of them ...
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... leaves ovate , accuminate . Hibiscus . There are several herbaceous species very showy and handsome , H. palustris ; H. ròseus ; H. militaris ; H. speciòsus ; H. grandiflòrus ; and H. púngens . They grow best in moist situations , and ...
... leaves ovate , accuminate . Hibiscus . There are several herbaceous species very showy and handsome , H. palustris ; H. ròseus ; H. militaris ; H. speciòsus ; H. grandiflòrus ; and H. púngens . They grow best in moist situations , and ...
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appearance beautiful begin to grow bipinnated bloom blue blush bright buds bulbs Camellias centre Chasselas closely set collections colour corolla covered crimson cultivated dark deciduous double flower Drain the pots dwarf earth easy culture esteemed evergreen feet finest flowering plants foliage four inches fragrance frequently frost fruit genus give glass globular graft grandiflora green green-house ground grow freely growth habit half hardy heat herbaceous hot-house imbricated inches inches in diameter insect keep lanceolate last month light lilac Magnificent manure Noisette observed ovate pale panicles perfect perfectly double petals pink plants produce pruning pure white purple repotted require rich rieties roots rose sashes scarlet scarlet flowers season seed shade showy shrubs situation Soil species spikes spotted stamens stem striped strong summer superb sweet-scented syringing three inches tion tree umbels varieties vine weather white flowers winter wood yellow young shoots
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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...