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  4. HORTICULTURAL.

    The weather has continued most favourable for garden plants, and also for weeds, which are growing in prodigious quantity and luxuriance. It will take all one's spare time to keep the garden clean. The ...

    Article : 545 words
  5. Houses and Frames.

    Cuttings of many kinds of plants may be taken and struck under glass if they be required, and seeds also for early autumn planting may be sowed, but do not keep the seedlings under glass too long. ...

    Article : 208 words
  6. Flowers as Food.

    In this country, with abundance of cheap food (writes E. L. Simmonds in the Gardeners' Chronicle), we are satisfied with flowers for decoration or ornament to our tables, but in many foreign countries ...

    Article : 1,201 words
  7. Kitchen Garden.

    The present showery weather is most favourable for the growth of all sorts of vegetables, and young cabbages, cauliflowers, &c., which have lately been planted out are making fine growth. It would not ...

    Article : 457 words
  8. English and Foreign.

    About the beginning of the present century, when leases were long and English farmers felt sure of remaining on the land for lengthened periods, orchards of apples and pears were planted. In these ...

    Article : 461 words
  9. Picking Quinces.

    With regard to quinces a New York orchardist writes:—"The error of many quince growers ia the time of picking and the manner of handling. As quinces do not blow off like apples or pears, ...

    Article : 157 words
  10. Horticultural Notes.

    Mr. Hugh Dixson, of Abergeldie, Summer Hill, intimates that he has a plant of the large water-lily, Victoria Regia, which he expects will be in flower this week. This is, he believes, the first that has ...

    Article : 345 words
  11. Orchard.

    Grapes of excellent quality axe now ripe in plenty. The vines hare suffered very little, if at ail, from the oidium or black spot this last season. The rain has unfortunately spoilt a good deal of fruit, but of ...

    Article : 289 words
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