The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and Conservatory Practice Throughout the Year : a Natural Arrangement of All the Green-house Plants in Cultivation : with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Most Desirable to Form a Collection, Their Proper Soils, Modes of Propagation, Management, and References to Botanical Works in which They are Figured : Also, the Proper Treatment of Flowers in Rooms, and Bulbs in Water GlassesHarding, Triphook, and Lepard ... and John Harding, 1825 - 460 Seiten |
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The Green-House Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-House and ... John Claudius Loudon Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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A. H. vol Adenandra beauty bell-glass biennial bulbs Camellia Cape shrubs cuttings in sand cuttings root easiest culture easy culture Erica evergreen flowering from April flowering from June flowering from March flowering in July flowers marked flowers on plants frame perennial garden genus Geraniacea Geranium glass grafting green green-house plants grow in loam grow in sandy hand-glass hardy plant heat Hermannia Holland shrub hybrid increased by cuttings increased by dividing increased by young John's Wort June and July June to August light rich soil loam and peat loamy soil low frame shrub low spongy Mesembryanthemum mode Pelargonium perennial Podalyria propagated purple flowers red flowers root in sand roundish sandy loam September shoots showy shrub introduced shrubby branching stem shrubby erect South of Europe South Wales species Stork's-bill Storksbill succulent ternate tree tube-shaped tuberous tuberous root usual culture white flowers yellow flowers young cuttings
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Seite 51 - BM 524, a suffruticose short succulent stem, with oblong sinuate leaves, and pale whitish flowers with streaks of red. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced in 1795; it flowers from March to May, and must be but sparingly watered after the bloom is over.
Seite 254 - When the flower stem has risen an inch or two, then the heat may be considerably increased : that is, the glasses may be removed from a room without a fire to one where a fire is kept, and where the temperature will generally be found between 55• and 65•. Here they will advance with considerable rapidity, especially if placed on a stand, or stage, near a window of south or south-east aspect. They will blow, however, without any sun; but the colours of the flowers will be inferior. Those who keep...
Seite 120 - Pseudo-China, climbing shrubs ' (N)2 which grow freely in loam and peat, and young cuttings root in sand under a hand-glass.
Seite 187 - CALLA athiopica may be treated as an aquatic, and grown in deep water in pots of rich loam, or it will grow in loam and peat on the common stage of the greenhouse. It is increased by suckers. ARUM crinitum, ternatum, and Arisarum, frame herbaceous plants, which grow in sandy loam, and are increased by suckers or dividing at the root.
Seite 153 - With respect to moisture, every cultivator knows, that in a properly constituted and regularly pulverized soil, whatever quantity of rain may fall on the surface, the soil is never saturated with water, nor in times of great drought burnt up with heat ; the porous texture of the soil and subsoil being at once favourable for the...
Seite 228 - ... sufficient time for them to unite ; at all events, by that time, I think, they may be partially separated from the parent plant by cutting the inarched shoots better than half way through ; and if, on trial, they are found to be united, and bear that operation well, they may in a few days afterwards be entirely cut off and placed in a shady part of the house, where they must be kept moderately syringed as before, and some additional shade given according to the state of the weather for two or...
Seite 82 - ... the brim in a frame with bottom heat. Shade them well with a double mat till they have struck root; when rooted, take the sand and cuttings out of the pot, and plant them into single pots in proper soil: plunge the pots again into a frame with bottom heat, and shade them with mats for four or five weeks, or till they are taken with the pots, when they may be gradually exposed to the light.
Seite 249 - ... are scattered over the floor as single objects. But in more select entertainments, a proportionate attention is paid to their arrangement. During dinner a few pots of fruit-bearing shrubs, or trees with their fruit ripe, are ranged along the centre of the table, from which, during the dessert, the fruit is gathered by the company. Sometimes a row of orange trees, or standard peach trees, or cherries, or all of them, in fruit, surround the table of the guests ; one plant being placed exactly behind...
Seite 175 - Of this splendid genus of Cape bulbs, Sweet observes: "Some of the bulbs grow to a great size, and require large pots to have them flower in perfection; or, if planted out In the open borders in spring, there will be a better chance of their flowering, taking the bulbs up again in autumn ; or the best way to succeed well with them is to have a pit built on purpose, for...
Seite 255 - ... fixed time for this purpose : the principle is to keep the water sweet and pure. In a temperature of 45° or 48°, when the bulbs are newly planted, this will be effected by changing once a week : at 60°, and the glass nearly filled with roots, the water will get putrid and show a muddiness in two or three days or less, and whenever it does so it ought to be changed. The operation of changing is easily done by one person, when the roots are only an inch or two long ; but after the flowerstems...