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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... roots that have been kept out of the ground should be planted immediately according to directions in October . Some writers have recommended keeping some of the bulbs until this month , in order to have a continued succession ...
... roots that have been kept out of the ground should be planted immediately according to directions in October . Some writers have recommended keeping some of the bulbs until this month , in order to have a continued succession ...
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... roots , which must be considerably larger , that the roots may not be in the least confined . Break the earth well at bottom , put in as much as will receive the plant from one to two inches ( according to its size ) lower than it has ...
... roots , which must be considerably larger , that the roots may not be in the least confined . Break the earth well at bottom , put in as much as will receive the plant from one to two inches ( according to its size ) lower than it has ...
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... roots . It sometimes occurs , that by careless planting in the autumn , they are thrown above ground by the frost , especially if the ground is inclined to moisture , and they not being deep enough planted : if such is the case , cover ...
... roots . It sometimes occurs , that by careless planting in the autumn , they are thrown above ground by the frost , especially if the ground is inclined to moisture , and they not being deep enough planted : if such is the case , cover ...
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... roots of this plant are lifted in October , and placed in a dry celler , free from frost , and planted out next April , they will bloom much finer . Nemophila insignis , or blue Grove Love , a pretty dwarf plant , requiring rich soil ...
... roots of this plant are lifted in October , and placed in a dry celler , free from frost , and planted out next April , they will bloom much finer . Nemophila insignis , or blue Grove Love , a pretty dwarf plant , requiring rich soil ...
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... roots of A. napéllus are like small turnips , and are said to be poisonous . They like a little shade and rich soil . Caltha palustris flôre - plèno is a good border plant , delights in moist situations , has large cordate , crenated ...
... roots of A. napéllus are like small turnips , and are said to be poisonous . They like a little shade and rich soil . Caltha palustris flôre - plèno is a good border plant , delights in moist situations , has large cordate , crenated ...
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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...