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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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succeed them, butwith careful management the flowers remain twice aslong in good condition now as they do later, whenthe weather is hot. Weak guano water is a good aidto any plants that may happen to be pot-bound, but the great importance of keeping all the leaves per-fectly clean—free from thrips and red-spider. Calckolakias.Where large specimen plants are required theplants should now be well tied out, and this shouldbe constantly attended to as the plants advance ingrowth. Rapid growth is now being made, and asthe weather is much warmer, greenfly spreads r.ipidly Chrysa.nthemums.The object of exhibitors of Pompon specimenplants is to get ihem up inio good-sized plauis earlyin the season ; wiih this (jl-jecl in view the eaiiy pic-pagated plants (ihat will now have iilled the 6o-sizedpots in which they were polled with roots) should bepotted on without delay, if not already done, asadvised for the large-flowering section last month.Keep the plants close to the glass; free them from
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