Handy-Book of the Flower-Garden, being practical directions for the propagation, culture, and arrangement of plants in flower-gardens all the year round. [With illustrations.]W. Blackwood and sons, 1868 - 364 páginas |
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... August is the best time to begin the propagation of these Pelargoniums . By that time the plants have made a vigorous and firm growth , and the beds and lines are generally so well filled up that a couple of cuttings from each plant ...
... August is the best time to begin the propagation of these Pelargoniums . By that time the plants have made a vigorous and firm growth , and the beds and lines are generally so well filled up that a couple of cuttings from each plant ...
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... August , and pinch just the terminal bud out of each shoot . This checks the wood or stem growth , and the trusses grow more strongly , and are thrown up more prominently than when stopping is not practised . Select List of Zonale and ...
... August , and pinch just the terminal bud out of each shoot . This checks the wood or stem growth , and the trusses grow more strongly , and are thrown up more prominently than when stopping is not practised . Select List of Zonale and ...
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... August , selected of large size ; and great care is taken that , in collecting , making , and putting them in , they are not bruised . After trying various ways of striking and wintering them , I give the preference to 8 - inch pots ...
... August , selected of large size ; and great care is taken that , in collecting , making , and putting them in , they are not bruised . After trying various ways of striking and wintering them , I give the preference to 8 - inch pots ...
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... August . Amateurs are very often in error in select- ing far too small cuttings - the mere points of the shoots . As the successful preservation , under not very favourable circumstances , depends so much on the description of cutting ...
... August . Amateurs are very often in error in select- ing far too small cuttings - the mere points of the shoots . As the successful preservation , under not very favourable circumstances , depends so much on the description of cutting ...
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... August , about 9 or 10 inches of half - rotted leaves are beaten firmly into the bottom of a cold frame ; over the leaves is put about 3 inches of light soil , composed of one part loam , one part well - rotted leaf - mould , and rather ...
... August , about 9 or 10 inches of half - rotted leaves are beaten firmly into the bottom of a cold frame ; over the leaves is put about 3 inches of light soil , composed of one part loam , one part well - rotted leaf - mould , and rather ...
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Handy-Book of the Flower-Garden, being practical directions for the ... David Thomson Visualização integral - 1868 |
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Alyssum annuals April Arabis Aubrietia autumn banded beautiful bloom blue Lobelia Blue Pansy bulbs Calceolaria Canna Centaurea Centaurea Ragusina centre Cerastium tomentosum Chrysanthemum Sensation Coleus colour contrast Crimson King Crocus cuttings Dactylis glomerata double dwarf early easily edged with blue effective evergreen Fcap feet feet-June and July flore-pleno flower-garden flowering plants foliage frost Gazania Gazania splendens golden Pelargonium green ground ground-work group of beds grow hardy heat Hedera Iresine Herbstii Japonica June King Verbena Lastræa leaf-mould leaves light lilac loam Lobelia Lobelia speciosa manure mixed borders Narcissus orange panel Perilla pink pots Primula vulgaris propagation Purple King purple Pansy recommended red Daisy require Rhododendron rich soil rock-work roots rose rosy rows scarlet Pelargonium season shade shrubs Silene pendula silver variegated sowing sown spring spring-flowering Stock summer surface Tulip variegated Pelargonium variety Verbena Viola cornuta violet winter yellow Pansy Yucca aloifolia
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