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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... require to be neatly and carefully clipped with shears every September . In the southern states Noisette and China Roses , with a profusion of Sweetbrier , would make the most beautiful of all fences , and could be very easily obtained ...
... require to be neatly and carefully clipped with shears every September . In the southern states Noisette and China Roses , with a profusion of Sweetbrier , would make the most beautiful of all fences , and could be very easily obtained ...
Page 14
... require very little water , and be sure to give none while they are in a frozen state . If snow should cover them , the plants will keep in a fine state under it , so never remove snow from covering cold frames , even suppose it should ...
... require very little water , and be sure to give none while they are in a frozen state . If snow should cover them , the plants will keep in a fine state under it , so never remove snow from covering cold frames , even suppose it should ...
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... require nothing more than to be thinned of straggling , irregular , and injured branches , or of suckers that rise round the root , observing , that they do not intermingle with each other . Never trim them up in a formal manner ...
... require nothing more than to be thinned of straggling , irregular , and injured branches , or of suckers that rise round the root , observing , that they do not intermingle with each other . Never trim them up in a formal manner ...
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... require to be very lightly covered . Portulaca grandiflora , great flowered Purslane . Gilesii , rosy purple flowered Purslane . Salpiglossus picta , atropurpurea , & c . , delight in a cool si- tuation . Schizanthus retusus , orange ...
... require to be very lightly covered . Portulaca grandiflora , great flowered Purslane . Gilesii , rosy purple flowered Purslane . Salpiglossus picta , atropurpurea , & c . , delight in a cool si- tuation . Schizanthus retusus , orange ...
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... require to be partially shaded from hot suns . Malope - trifida , scarlet Malope . Mirabilis jalapa , marvel of Peru , many varieties . If the roots of this plant are lifted in October , and placed in a dry celler , free from frost ...
... require to be partially shaded from hot suns . Malope - trifida , scarlet Malope . Mirabilis jalapa , marvel of Peru , many varieties . If the roots of this plant are lifted in October , and placed in a dry celler , free from frost ...
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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...