Handy Book of the Flower-garden: Being Practical Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in Flower-gardens All the Year RoundW. Blackwood, 1868 - 364 páginas |
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... pot - plant for front shelves in greenhouses . Now , in L. erinus speciosa we have an intense blue , which is admired by all . A better blue colour is hardly possible in Lobelias . What flower - gardeners have often wished for is a ...
... pot - plant for front shelves in greenhouses . Now , in L. erinus speciosa we have an intense blue , which is admired by all . A better blue colour is hardly possible in Lobelias . What flower - gardeners have often wished for is a ...
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... as soon as they are rooted , lift them and pot them , either singly in small pots , or a few together in larger ones . This is a very good method , but it has the disadvantage of requiring more labour , AUTUMN PROPAGATION , ETC. 29.
... as soon as they are rooted , lift them and pot them , either singly in small pots , or a few together in larger ones . This is a very good method , but it has the disadvantage of requiring more labour , AUTUMN PROPAGATION , ETC. 29.
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... pots are preferable to boxes for striking in , inasmuch as their depth gives more room for thorough drainage , which is indispensable . Moreover , the air and light play more freely about the cuttings in small round de- tachments than ...
... pots are preferable to boxes for striking in , inasmuch as their depth gives more room for thorough drainage , which is indispensable . Moreover , the air and light play more freely about the cuttings in small round de- tachments than ...
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... pots clean and in readiness . For such strong healthy cuttings , drainage of any description is not necessary in the case of this size of pots . The soil should consist of two parts loam , one part of well- rotted dung - dry , and ...
... pots clean and in readiness . For such strong healthy cuttings , drainage of any description is not necessary in the case of this size of pots . The soil should consist of two parts loam , one part of well- rotted dung - dry , and ...
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... pot- ting , the soil should be pressed firmly into the pots . In disposing of them after they are potted , my own practice is to remove them to a large cool peach - house , where there is command of heat just sufficient to keep the ...
... pot- ting , the soil should be pressed firmly into the pots . In disposing of them after they are potted , my own practice is to remove them to a large cool peach - house , where there is command of heat just sufficient to keep the ...
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Handy-Book of the Flower-Garden, being practical directions for the ... David Thomson Visualização integral - 1868 |
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14 foot 9 inches Alyssum annuals April Arabis Aubrietia autumn banded beautiful bloom blue Lobelia Blue Pansy bulbs Calceolaria Canna Centaurea Ragusina centre Cerastium Cerastium tomentosum Coleus colour contrast crimson Crocus cuttings Dactylis Dactylis glomerata Daisy double dwarf early easily edged effective evergreen Fcap feet feet-June and July Ferns flore-pleno flower-garden flowering plants foliage foot-June frost Gazania golden Pelargonium ground ground-work group of beds grow growth hardy Iresine Iresine Herbstii June King Verbena Lastræa leaf-mould leaves light lilac lines loam Lobelia Lobelia speciosa manure mixed borders moisture Narcissus orange panel Pelargonium pendula Perilla pink pots Primula vulgaris propagation Purple King recommended require Rhododendron rich soil rock-work roots rose rosy rows sandy soil season seed shaded shrubs Silene pendula sowing sown spring Stock summer surface thrive Tulip variegated Pelargonium varieties Verbena Viola cornuta violet weather winter yellow Pansy Yucca Yucca aloifolia