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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... seeds . Allowing the manure to come to a lively heat , having no unpleasant , rancid smell , proceed to mark off your intended bed , running it east and west as nearly as possible , measure your frame , and allow the site of the bed ...
... seeds . Allowing the manure to come to a lively heat , having no unpleasant , rancid smell , proceed to mark off your intended bed , running it east and west as nearly as possible , measure your frame , and allow the site of the bed ...
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... seeds , cover with very fine sifted soil . Some very small kinds do best when sown upon the surface . When sown , give gentle sprinklings of water until they come up , when it will be necessary to give air freely during the day to ...
... seeds , cover with very fine sifted soil . Some very small kinds do best when sown upon the surface . When sown , give gentle sprinklings of water until they come up , when it will be necessary to give air freely during the day to ...
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... seed sown also in April and May for autumn blooming . semperflorens , pink flowering , Maurandia Barclayana , blue ... seeds are small and require to be very lightly covered . Portulaca grandiflora , great flowered Purslane . Gilesii ...
... seed sown also in April and May for autumn blooming . semperflorens , pink flowering , Maurandia Barclayana , blue ... seeds are small and require to be very lightly covered . Portulaca grandiflora , great flowered Purslane . Gilesii ...
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... seeds but thinly covered , which must be guarded against by shading with mats for a few hours during bright sunshine . In giving water it ought always to be about milk warm , and passed through a fine rose , to prevent the stems being ...
... seeds but thinly covered , which must be guarded against by shading with mats for a few hours during bright sunshine . In giving water it ought always to be about milk warm , and passed through a fine rose , to prevent the stems being ...
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... seeds sown in the spot where they are to grow . The first sowing may take place about the end of the month , when the ground ... seed , flower , and perfect their productions , and then die within one year . The following sorts are well ...
... seeds sown in the spot where they are to grow . The first sowing may take place about the end of the month , when the ground ... seed , flower , and perfect their productions , and then die within one year . The following sorts are well ...
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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...