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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... winter . Most of shrubs 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 ...
... winter . Most of shrubs 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 ...
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... winter , we would be left ex- posed to the chilling winds , but for the shelter they afford . Likewise they produce a great variety of flowers , a varied foliage , and are standing ornaments that give no great trou- ble . In the ...
... winter , we would be left ex- posed to the chilling winds , but for the shelter they afford . Likewise they produce a great variety of flowers , a varied foliage , and are standing ornaments that give no great trou- ble . In the ...
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... winter . If shrubberies were made to a great extent , the scenery would be much more varied and characteristic by grouping judiciously than by indiscriminately planting . However , in small flower gardens and shrubberies , the latter ...
... winter . If shrubberies were made to a great extent , the scenery would be much more varied and characteristic by grouping judiciously than by indiscriminately planting . However , in small flower gardens and shrubberies , the latter ...
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... winter , but leave every green part which is essential to the support of these kind of plants . It is expected that all pruning of the shrubbery is finished ; if not , get all expedi- tiously done according to directions given in the ...
... winter , but leave every green part which is essential to the support of these kind of plants . It is expected that all pruning of the shrubbery is finished ; if not , get all expedi- tiously done according to directions given in the ...
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... winter . OF FRAMING . Where it is desired to have the more showy annuals early in bloom , it is necessary to prepare a hot - bed frame , for the purpose of bringing them forward . It is time about the first of the month , to collect and ...
... winter . OF FRAMING . Where it is desired to have the more showy annuals early in bloom , it is necessary to prepare a hot - bed frame , for the purpose of bringing them forward . It is time about the first of the month , to collect and ...
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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...