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Identifier: flowergrowersgui21898wrig (find matches)
Title: Flower grower's guide
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, John
Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: London : Virtue and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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or soil or by occasionally half lifting orsevering some of the roots. Z. gracillima is notso coaise, but the variegation is less constant.Both are effective dotted among begonias,verbenas, petunias, and other low-growing plantsin mixed borders. Sow the seed late in April, p p 2 220 THE FLOWER GROWERS GUIDE. singly in 2;-inch pots in gentle heat. Plant out !late in May. Zinnias.—Z. Haageana imbricata flore pleno is adwarf branching variety with small bright orangeflowers, and showy in masses. The double large-flowering robusta grandifiora and other varieties grow to a height of 12 to 18 inches, are continuousflowering, and very beautiful; colours various.Pine for sunny beds or borders. Sow late inApril in very little warmth. Prom pans transferthe seedlings to boxes, and plant out in goodground late in May. CARPET BEDDING. Carpet bedding is a term that was popularly applied some twenty years ago whenbeds were occupied with close-growing plants arranged in panels, colour being imparted
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Fig. 109. Combination Cakpet Bed. Planting.—Raised centre : Dracoena indivisa in a yellow cushion of Mesembiyanthemum (p. 223), encircledby dark Alternanthera (p. 221), and dwarf Pcheverias (p. 223), then a broad grey band of Sedum glaucum (p. 223),containing scarlet-berried Nerteras (p. 222), margined with Pcheverias. Dark saucer-shaped groundwork : Her-niaria (p. 222), with Pcheveria mounds and Chamsepeuce diacantha (p. 217). Eaised outer rim : a broad band ofSedum glaucum, with Nertera, margined with Pcheveria secunda glauca. by the foliage of such plants rather than by flowers. The patterns varied extensively,and some of them closely resembled those of carpets, the colours also being similarlysuggestive. The term mosaic was also applied to some of the beds, but did not catch on. The designs, simple at first, became more elaborate, and eventually coats PLANTS FOR CARPET BEDS. 221 of arms, birds and butterflies were made the chief feature. These with other fantastictricks eventual

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