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A Supplement to the Practical Treatise on the Culture of Florists' Flowers
A Supplement to the Practical Treatise on the Culture of Florists' Flowers Author:Thomas Hogg General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Original Publisher: The author Subjects: Flower gardening Gardening / General Gardening / Flowers / General Nature / Flowers 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 ... more »the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: OF THE RANUNCULUS. In low, warm, and sheltered situations, by the sides of brooks, or rivulets, where the ground is fertile, and of a loamy texture, retentive of moisture, resting on a subsoil of strong loam, brick earth, or clay, the Ranunculus grows freely, and flourishes best; it is almost folly, and a waste of time and labour, to plant them in light sandy soil, on a gravelly bottom, and particularly on hilly, or high ground; for if the weather be hot and dry in May, they must inevitably fail. The only way of removing this objection, is, by preparing a bed suited to the place. Dig and remove the earth and sub-soil, consist of what they may, to the depth of two feet; then 111! in fresh substantial earth, or loam, well mixed, and manured with full one-third of rotten cow-dung, within four inches of the top; fill this space up with the same sort of earth, free from any manure, and make it level with the surface. This ought to be done before Winter, so that the bed may be quite ready for planting, except raking and smoothing, about the 21st of February, or as soon after as the weather will permit. The four inches of mould on which the roots are to be set, ought to be prepared, screened, turned, and sweetened, in the Summer; plant the roots four inches apart every way, or three inches and a half in the rows, which may be five inches asunder; and cover them with the same sifted mould, an inch and a half deep. This being mostly a wet month, it would be as well to keep this mould...« less