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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... strong and irregular , the most proper method to bring them to order , will be to cut down each alternate shoot of the bush to within a few inches of the surface , thereby renovating it , and , in part , preserving the flowers . Those ...
... strong and irregular , the most proper method to bring them to order , will be to cut down each alternate shoot of the bush to within a few inches of the surface , thereby renovating it , and , in part , preserving the flowers . Those ...
Page 28
... strong - wooded nature . Annuals are such plants as grow from seed , flower , and perfect their productions , and then die within one year . The following sorts are well deserving of culture . Adonis miniata , Flos Adonis or Pheasant's ...
... strong - wooded nature . Annuals are such plants as grow from seed , flower , and perfect their productions , and then die within one year . The following sorts are well deserving of culture . Adonis miniata , Flos Adonis or Pheasant's ...
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... strong , furnished with many palmate and digitate leaves , terminated by spikes of blue , yellow , or white flowers , similar to a hood ; hence the name of Monk's Hood is often applied to them . They are scarce in collections ; but , in ...
... strong , furnished with many palmate and digitate leaves , terminated by spikes of blue , yellow , or white flowers , similar to a hood ; hence the name of Monk's Hood is often applied to them . They are scarce in collections ; but , in ...
Page 36
... strong , fleshy , and fibrous . They are easy of culture , and will retain their situation in the severest of our winters . C. grandiflora is now Wahlen- bérgia grandiflora . It has superb large blue flower stems are slender , and ...
... strong , fleshy , and fibrous . They are easy of culture , and will retain their situation in the severest of our winters . C. grandiflora is now Wahlen- bérgia grandiflora . It has superb large blue flower stems are slender , and ...
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... strong growth . The leaves are much divided ; the flowers in terminale spikes ; colour blue , purple , pink , white , and yellow , with various shades . D. grandiflòrum , with its varieties , are the best of the genus . D. intermèdium ...
... strong growth . The leaves are much divided ; the flowers in terminale spikes ; colour blue , purple , pink , white , and yellow , with various shades . D. grandiflòrum , with its varieties , are the best of the genus . D. intermèdium ...
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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...