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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THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS
good yellow fibrous loam, one part leaf-soil, one part morfar rubble and sand or road grit, one part mushroom manure and a good sprinkling each of charcoal and Clay’s fertiliser. In arriving at a fairly correct estimate it may be useful to know that a barrowful of soil will be sufficient to pot
Diagram 16.—Carnations: i. Layer of Malmaison. 2. Cutting of American tree carnation. 3. Rooted cutting potted up. 4. Same set in warm frame. 5. A frame-work set over in summer to ward off rain.
two hundred rooted cuttings into 3-inch pots and to transfer forty plants from 3-inch to 6-inch pots.
But between the first and the final pottings the plants will need much cultural attention. Pinching of the growths should happen when the plants are about four inches high, and later when the resulting growths are six inches high. Cooler treatment may be given in the spring, so that by the time the 5-inch pots are reached they will have been placed