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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... rows a foot apart , and two inches between each bulb . In two years they make fine blooming bulbs . Select List of Gladioli . Adèle Souchet , white , shaded with white ; large , fine shape . Bertha Rabourdin , pure white , shaded with ...
... rows a foot apart , and two inches between each bulb . In two years they make fine blooming bulbs . Select List of Gladioli . Adèle Souchet , white , shaded with white ; large , fine shape . Bertha Rabourdin , pure white , shaded with ...
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... rows or in beds on light garden soil . For summer and autumn flowering , the best time to sow is in the beginning of July . When about 2 inches high , prick them out into nursery bed , in rows about 4 inches apart ; here they may 86 ...
... rows or in beds on light garden soil . For summer and autumn flowering , the best time to sow is in the beginning of July . When about 2 inches high , prick them out into nursery bed , in rows about 4 inches apart ; here they may 86 ...
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David Thomson. in rows about 4 inches apart ; here they may remain till the borders are dug in spring , when they should be lifted with balls , and planted where they are to bloom . By picking the seed - pods off as they form , the ...
David Thomson. in rows about 4 inches apart ; here they may remain till the borders are dug in spring , when they should be lifted with balls , and planted where they are to bloom . By picking the seed - pods off as they form , the ...
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... rows and mixed borders . They are easily propagated by cuttings in August and September in a close cold frame ; and in spring in the same way as Heliotropes or Ageratums . When large plants are required , the old ones can be lifted and ...
... rows and mixed borders . They are easily propagated by cuttings in August and September in a close cold frame ; and in spring in the same way as Heliotropes or Ageratums . When large plants are required , the old ones can be lifted and ...
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... rows will decoy them ; and if looked over every day in this way , they will be mastered . A first - rate preventive is a ring of sharp sand round the bed of annuals , or , indeed , young plants of any kind . No slug or snail will cross ...
... rows will decoy them ; and if looked over every day in this way , they will be mastered . A first - rate preventive is a ring of sharp sand round the bed of annuals , or , indeed , young plants of any kind . No slug or snail will cross ...
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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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