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These plants will grow in any good soil. The hardyperennials flower in July. The greenhouse varieties merely require protecting in the winter. They all bear division of the root, and are easily raised...
To prevent snails crawling up walls or fruit trees daub theground with a thick paste of soot and train oil. There is no remedy so effectual for their destruction as hand-picking.
Extremely beautiful and showy annuals. A rather poor,light soil is most suitable for their growth. For early flowering sow the seed in autumn, and keep the young plants in a frame or greenhouse throug...
This singular and delightfully fragrant annualdoes best in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, or sandy loam and leaf-mould. Sow the seed in pots in the spring, place in a greenhouse, and when large en...
A most lovelyautumn-blooming plant, producing abundant spikes of Izia-like flowers about 2 ft. high. It is suitable for pot-culture or planting outdoors, and is quite hardy. It requires a rich, light...
Very useful spring-flowering bulbs. They arehardy, and do well in any position in light soil. When mixed with Crocuses and Snowdrops they produce a very charming effect. To get perfection of bloom the...
Plant in October in peat, or in a compost of sandy,turfy loam, with a good proportion of decayed leaves and charred refuse. The best position for them is a sheltered one where they can get a moderate...
These beautiful everlastingflowers are half-hardy annuals and are suitable for beds or ribbons, and make most graceful plants for pot culture, placing four plants in a 5-in. pot. They thrive best in f...
This species of rhubarb makes an effective plant forthe back portion of a border. It does well in rich loam, flowering in June, and is increased by dividing the root. Height, 5 ft.