Gardening for Pleasure: A Guide to the Amateur in the Fruit, Vegetable, and Flower Garden, with Full Directions for the Greenhouse, Conservatory, and Window-garden |
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Page 68 - The danger to be avoided is in all probability that which brought on the sickness, namely : saturation of the soil by too much water. Other causes may induce sickness in plants, such as an escape of gas in the apartment, or smoke from a flue in the greenhouse, but in all cases, when the leaves fall from a plant, withhold water, and if there is reason to believe that the soil has been poisoned by gas, or soddened with moisture, shake it from the roots as before advised, and re-pot in a fresh flowerpot.
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Page 68 - ... pot, take the ball of soil in which the roots have been enveloped, and crush it between the hands just enough to allow all the sour outer crust of the ball of earth to be shaken off ; then re-pot in rather dry soil, (composed of any fresh soil mixed with equal bulk of...
Page 235 - ... with leaves or manure to prevent the soil from freezing, as it would be destruction to the vines to start the shoots if the roots were frozen ; hence, when forcing is begun in January, the covering should be put on in November, before severe frosts begin. Vegetable Garden.— But little can be done in the Northern States except to prepare manure, and get sashes, tools, etc., in working order ; but in sections of the country where there is little or no frost the hardier kinds of seeds...
Page 235 - ... will in the main apply to this month, except that now some of the hardier annuals may be sown in hotbed or greenhouse, and also the propagation of plants by cuttings may be done rather better now than in January, as the greater amount of light gives more vitality to the cutting. Fruit Garden. — But little can be done in most of the Northern States as yet, and in sections where there is no frost in the ground, it is likely to be too wet to work ; but in many Southern States this will be the...
Page 244 - Cabbages that have headed may usually be preserved against injury by frost until the middle of next month, by simply pulling them up and packing them closely in a dry spot in the open field with the heads down and roots up. On approach of cold weather in December they should be covered up with leaves as high as the tops of the roots, or, if the soil is light, it may be thrown over them, if leaves are not convenient. Cabbages will keep this way until March if the covering has not been put on too early....