The Practical Garden-book: Containing the Simplest Directions for the Growing of the Commonest Things about the House and Garden |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Beans become Begonia better bloom Bordeaux mixture boxes buds bulbs cabbage canes Centaurea Cyanus Coldframe colors Convolvulus tricolor cool covered crop cultivation culture Dianthus drainage dwarf early spring excellent fall feet florists flowers foliage frost fruit fungi garden geraniums Gilia capitata give grass green greenhouse ground grow grown from seed growth hardy annuals heat Height hotbed house plants Iberis umbellata inches insects keep Kerosene kinds L. H. BAILEY late lawn leaf-mold leaves loam Lobelia Erinus manure moist moisture mulch ordinarily Paris Green peach perennial Plums Potatoes pots propagated protection Pruning rich rieties roots Roses rotted manure rows sand season seed seed sown seedlings setting the plants shade shrubs soil sowing species spray summer surface Sweet temperature tender thinned thrive Tillage transplanted trees tubers usually varieties vegetable vines warm weather window window-garden winter wood young plants