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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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his is generally more beneficial to theflowers than having them surrounded by bare soil. These remarks upon the subject ofarrangement are, as will be seen, more by way of suggestion than intended to deal witha wide question in tedious detail. In order to secure the most effective results a borderof 10 or more feet wide will be found more suitable than a narrower one, but so great awidth cannot always be had, and on account of this and for convenience of access to theplants considerably narrower borders have to be laid out in many gardens. Though wide borders are desirable, they should be accessible from both sides, inorder that (when not carpeted) the Dutch hoe may be used between the plants for pro- 24-6 THE FLOWER GROWERS GUIDE. moting growth, preventing weeds, and disturbing slugs ; also for convenience in attend-ing to the plants. If a border run parallel with a fence or wall covered with rosesand other climbers, a narrow path should be provided for attending to them as well as to
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Fig. 117. Portion of Mixed Flower Border. Planting.—1, Delphinium; 2, Lilium tigrinum splendens; 3, Kniphofia Rooperi: 4, Verbascumolympicum; <3, Pklox ; 6, Anemone japonica alba ; 7, Eryngium amethystinum ; 8, Aster ericoides;9, Trollius Fortimei fl. pi. ; 10, Pyrethrum ; 11, Monarda didyma; 12, Helenium pumilum ; 13, Trades-cantia virginica ; 14, Campanula persicifolia; 15, Gentiana; 16, Saxifraga ; 17, Sedum oppositifolium ;18, Campanula turbinata; 19, Arabis albida; 20, Aubrietia Leichtlini; 21, Sempervivum; 22, Pliloxsubulata Nelsoni; A, Daffodils ; B, Tulips (tall); C, Tulips (dwarf); D, Snowdrops; E, Crocuses. Thepositions of bulbs marked by pegs. Plants Nos. 16-22 growing over a rough edging of stones. Tallunnumbered on the extreme right, Lilium candidum ; others nearer the front, carnations, pansy ; and infront of E, yellow viola. the flowers on the opposite side (see Fig. 117). It is a mistake to plant a very wideborder flush up to a wall. The best season for planting i

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