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Every Man His Own Gardener; Being a New and Much More Complete Gardener's Calendar and General Directory Than Any One Hitherto Published
Every Man His Own Gardener Being a New and Much More Complete Gardener's Calendar and General Directory Than Any One Hitherto Published Author:John Abercrombie General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington Subjects: Gardening Horticulture Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you ... more »get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE HOT-HOUSE. Pines. At this season the pinery hot-house requires good aN tendance, for some of the pines will, towards the end of the month, begin to show fruit, and your assistance is at no time more necessary than when the fruit first appears, especially in supporting a proper bottom heat; for if the heat of the bark -bed is not kept up at that time, the yonng fruit will receive a check more than may be imagined) as, notwithstanding the air of the house can be sufficiently warmed by the flues, yet these plants also require a moderately brisk, growing heat to their roots, especially when the fruit is young. Examine, therefore, carefully the heat of the bark-bed in which the pots of pines are plunged; and if you find it very faint, take up all the pots, and let the bark be forked up to the bottom. But before you proceed to this, if the heat is much decayed, the bark considerably wasted, or become very small or earthy, it will be advisable to add a little new tan, first removing some of the wasted bark at top and sides, then fill up with new bark, working the old and new well together ; when that, is done, let the pots be replunged again to their rims. Let the fires be made regularly every evening and morning, and take care that they are not made too strong, for that would be of very bad consequence ; to avoid which, have a thermometer placed in the hot-house. The temperature of the bark-bed, at the bottom of the pots, should not exceed 96 at any time, and until it falls below 75 there will be no necessity e...« less