Archive image from page 497 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode00john Year: 1847 RHU 504 RIC with well putrefied dung at the time. The forcing may commence in Decem- ber ; first cover either with sea-kale or common garden pots (twelves), but chimney pots are still better, the leaf- stalks becoming much longer and finer, and envelope them with fermenting dung. When well up, the pots are re- moved, except when chimney pots are used, and large hand-glasses substi- tuted; covering is required every night, and in dull weather with thick mats. th
Archive image from page 497 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode00john Year: 1847 RHU 504 RIC with well putrefied dung at the time. The forcing may commence in Decem- ber ; first cover either with sea-kale or common garden pots (twelves), but chimney pots are still better, the leaf- stalks becoming much longer and finer, and envelope them with fermenting dung. When well up, the pots are re- moved, except when chimney pots are used, and large hand-glasses substi- tuted; covering is required every night, and in dull weather with thick mats. the roots are placed on a level with each other, and about an inch belowr the surface. These being covered with inverted pots of the same size, may be placed in a vinery or hot-bed, and on the approach of spring, probably any time after January, any room or cellar will be sufficiently warm. If copiously supplied with water, the plants vege- tate rapidly and vigorously, and each pot will produce three successional cuttings, the first two being the most By this mode the plants are very liable plentiful. As soon as the third is ga- to be broken, as their leaves soon touch thered, the roots may be changed, and the sides. A frame is much less objec- those removed replajited in the ground, tionable, formed by driving stakes into when they will attain sufficient strength the ground on each side of the bed, al- to be forced again in a year's time. If ternating with the plants. These are to not, it is of little consequence, foryear- be three feet high above ground, and the old roots raised from cuttings, or even space between the two rows of stakes two feet at the bottom, but approach- ing each other, and fastened by cross pieces, so as to be only fifteen inches apart at top. To the sides and top stout laths are fixed to prevent the dung fall seed sown in autumn, are sufficiently strong for use.' Propagation by Division.—Mr. Ro- gers, a successful cultivator, says, that ' when the rhuba
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