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Title: Cassell's popular gardening
Identifier: cassellspopularg00fish_0 (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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HOUSE, AEEA, AND WINDOW GARDENING. 287 shows how this may he done with a large group. Smaller groups are, however, more manageable, and more easily moved. Many kinds of Ferns will stand being located in a sitting-room for five or six hours daily, if they are permitted to pass the rest of the twenty-four hours in a proper Fernery. Bulbs.—The flowers of bulbs generally are so having been put into the pot, and a little moss laid over it, the pot is to be filled three-fourths fuU of the compost mentioned, which should be pressec" gently down but not made hard. Over this should be placed a layer of silver sand half an inch thick, on which the bulb or bulbs should be arranged „ after this the pot is to be filled up with the soil, some bulbs being completely covered, while ctfc»-T*
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Large Group of Feess. beautiful, and the perfumes of many of them are so delicious, that it is worth while to practise the best modes of cultivating them within our means and opportunities. The soil which will be found most useful consists of six parts of old fibrous turfy loam, one part of well-decomposed manure, and one part of rotted leaf- mould; to this must be added a little sharp silver sand, more or less, according to the requirements of different plants. The pots for bulbs should be five inches across and six inches deep. This size will hold one large bulb, or fi'om three to six smaller bulbs. Good drainage require the point or neck of the bulb to be left exposed. The most successful growers then place the pots upon some hard dry pathway or yard, and bury them in ashes, where they are kept for six to eight weeks, the ashes being ten or twelve inches over the pots. This treatment appears to check stem-growth, and to encourage root-growth. It also keeps the soil uniformly moist, and at a imiform temperature. Many room-gardeners may not be able to adopt this plan; it therefore becomes needful to do the next best thing, and that is to stand the potb in a dark cellar for a similar length of time; when the

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