The Garden Under Glass
Forfatter: William F. Rowles
År: 1914
Forlag: Grant Richards Ltd. Publishers
Sted: London
Sider: 368
UDK: 631.911.9
With Numerous Practical Diagrams From Drawings By G. D. Rowles And Thirty-Two Illustrations From Photographs
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A GREENHOUSE CALENDAR 317 into 5-inch pots, and when duly rooted plant into fruiting quarters or into 10-inch pots. No feeding should take place, or any manure be put in the soil until fruit has set —at least one bunch.
Vegetables.—Early in the monthsow marrows singly in small pots, also dwarf beans three in a pot, and runners singly in a 3-inch pot for planting outside. Plant onions, cauliflowers, cabbages, lettuces, peas and similar subjects which have been forwarded, outside. Rhubarb, seakale and asparagus need not now be forced inside. Do away with dwarf beans which have fruited. Prick out celery in a frame made of planks and syringe it frequently with quassia and soot-water to ward, off fly. Plant cucumber in frames, or, if not large enough, pot on to 6-inch pots. Sow for another batch.
Flowers.—Work all manner of bedding plants, whether in pots or boxes, to frames, and get them hard and sturdy as quickly as possible. Plant out sweet-peas at fiist avail-able opportunity. Later sowings of bedding stuff may be pricked off into a cold frame or on a piece of ground where there is convenience for covering up at night. Pot along such special plants as heliotropes and stocks so as to get really fine plants by bedding-out time. Sow annuals in a frame for planting in the border. Plant out border carnations wintered in a frame. Plant out in the shrubbery boi'ders bulbs which have been forced. Split up and plant out violets if not done last month. Con-tinue to take cuttings of dahlias. Plant out pentstemons, blue sal via (patens), early ’mums and hollyhocks.
Schizanthuses and cinerarias should now bc making a brave show in the greenhouse. Arums also should be doing well. Those that were flowered early may be set outside in a sheltered position. Young cyclamen may be potted from 3-inch to 5_inch pots, so that they will later