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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Page 40
... striped flowers : the latter is yet very rare , and but recently introduced from Japan . This genus has been separated from Hemerocallis . Gentiúnas , a genus of very showy plants , and flower in great abundance . The flowers are ...
... striped flowers : the latter is yet very rare , and but recently introduced from Japan . This genus has been separated from Hemerocallis . Gentiúnas , a genus of very showy plants , and flower in great abundance . The flowers are ...
Page 54
... either shoots or buds . We have no faith in black , yellow , and striped Moss Roses , all we have seen for such , have proven false to their character . Royal virgin , blush , expanded , large , and 54 [ March . ROSES .
... either shoots or buds . We have no faith in black , yellow , and striped Moss Roses , all we have seen for such , have proven false to their character . Royal virgin , blush , expanded , large , and 54 [ March . ROSES .
Page 55
... striped , often is perfectly white , and merely a sport from the former . Violatum , violet purple , expanded and double . Vandal carmine , compact , imbricated , and double . White sweetbrier rose , white , large globular , and very ...
... striped , often is perfectly white , and merely a sport from the former . Violatum , violet purple , expanded and double . Vandal carmine , compact , imbricated , and double . White sweetbrier rose , white , large globular , and very ...
Page 56
... striped , with almost every shade and mixture ; the odour universally grateful . This plant is culti- vated in every garden , from the humblest cottager to the loftiest prince , and by commercial gardeners in Europe ex- tensively , for ...
... striped , with almost every shade and mixture ; the odour universally grateful . This plant is culti- vated in every garden , from the humblest cottager to the loftiest prince , and by commercial gardeners in Europe ex- tensively , for ...
Page 64
... striped with white , imbricated and perfect in its shape . Duc de Choiseul , pink , blush , and rose , perfect form , and makes a fine standard rose . Elegans , light red , of slender growth , globular , and very profuse of flower ...
... striped with white , imbricated and perfect in its shape . Duc de Choiseul , pink , blush , and rose , perfect form , and makes a fine standard rose . Elegans , light red , of slender growth , globular , and very profuse of flower ...
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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...