. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. ENG this whichever mode is adopted for concluding operation. A very excellent mode is to spread over the surface of the bed about an inch in depth of pit-sand, and covering each plant with a small pot made of earthenware, painted both within and on the outside to exclude the wet—that worst hindrance of blanching. To avoid this, the pots should be taken off daily for a quarter of an hour, and their in- sides wiped dry. A common garden-pot will do if the hole be closely stopped; but a sea-kale pot in miniature, is to be preferred ; and if made of zi
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. ENG this whichever mode is adopted for concluding operation. A very excellent mode is to spread over the surface of the bed about an inch in depth of pit-sand, and covering each plant with a small pot made of earthenware, painted both within and on the outside to exclude the wet—that worst hindrance of blanching. To avoid this, the pots should be taken off daily for a quarter of an hour, and their in- sides wiped dry. A common garden-pot will do if the hole be closely stopped; but a sea-kale pot in miniature, is to be preferred ; and if made of zinc or other metal, it would be better, because not porous and admissive of moisture.— Johnson's Gard. Almanack. To obtain Seed. — The finest and soundest plants should be selected of the last plantation, and which most agree with the characteristics of the respect- ive varieties. For a small family three or four plants of each variety will pro- duce sufficient. These should be taken in March, and planted beneath a south I fence, about a foot from it and eighteen inches apart. As the flower-stem ad- vances it should be fastened to a stake; or, if they are placed beneath palings, by a string, to be gathered as the seed upon it ripens : for if none are gathered until the whole plant is changing colour, the first ripened and best seed will have scattered and be lost, so wide is the difference of time between the seve- ral branches of the same plant ripening their seed. Each branch must be laid, as it is cut, upon a cloth in the sun ; and when per- fectly dry, the seed beaten out, cleansed, and stored. ENGINE. This name is applied to many contriv- ances for supplying water to plants. 1. The pump-syringe, or syringe-engine, (Fig. 37), can be supplied with water from a common bucket, from which it sucks the water through a perforat- ed base. The handle is sometimes made to work like that of the common pump. 210 —?— ENG 2. The barrow watering-engine (Fig. 38) is represented i
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