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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... never remove snow from covering cold frames , even suppose it should lie for weeks , -nature will operate here herself . But when framing cannot be obtained , they will in this latitude keep tolerably , if gently covered with leaves or ...
... never remove snow from covering cold frames , even suppose it should lie for weeks , -nature will operate here herself . But when framing cannot be obtained , they will in this latitude keep tolerably , if gently covered with leaves or ...
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... Never trim them up in a formal manner ; regular shearing of shrubs , and topiary work , have been expelled as unworthy a taste , the least improved by reflections on beauty , simplicity , and grandeur of nature . In fact , the pruning ...
... Never trim them up in a formal manner ; regular shearing of shrubs , and topiary work , have been expelled as unworthy a taste , the least improved by reflections on beauty , simplicity , and grandeur of nature . In fact , the pruning ...
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... never be allowed to get too high . In a border from four to six feet , they ought never to exceed four feet at the back of the border , and in front one foot , after being pruned ; they can be kept down by the above method . It is not ...
... never be allowed to get too high . In a border from four to six feet , they ought never to exceed four feet at the back of the border , and in front one foot , after being pruned ; they can be kept down by the above method . It is not ...
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... never be introduced , unless merely as a screen from some disagreeable object , for they crowd and confuse the whole . The dwarf and more bushy sorts should be placed nearest to the eye in order that they may conceal the naked stems of ...
... never be introduced , unless merely as a screen from some disagreeable object , for they crowd and confuse the whole . The dwarf and more bushy sorts should be placed nearest to the eye in order that they may conceal the naked stems of ...
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... never saw nor had any idea of ; neither resembling , in any particular , the poetical fancy of their writers . The most admired species is D. mèdia ; the flowers are in umbels , on a pedicle , from six to twelve inches high ; the ...
... never saw nor had any idea of ; neither resembling , in any particular , the poetical fancy of their writers . The most admired species is D. mèdia ; the flowers are in umbels , on a pedicle , from six to twelve inches high ; the ...
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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...