The garden week by week throughout the year; a practical handbook to gardening operations for every week in the year and to the culture of all important plants, with numerous coloured plates and half-tone engravings and one hundred practical illus . , and but for cold air sinking downfrom higher altitudes the low level would be the as it is, it is generally fairly safe if there is a bodyof water near. Without this the low site is certainlydangerous. Sharp frost when the blossom is open is generallydisastrous. What we want is some kind fairy to spreadher gauzy robe over our fruit tre
The garden week by week throughout the year; a practical handbook to gardening operations for every week in the year and to the culture of all important plants, with numerous coloured plates and half-tone engravings and one hundred practical illus . , and but for cold air sinking downfrom higher altitudes the low level would be the as it is, it is generally fairly safe if there is a bodyof water near. Without this the low site is certainlydangerous. Sharp frost when the blossom is open is generallydisastrous. What we want is some kind fairy to spreadher gauzy robe over our fruit trees on those piercinglyclear nights when there is nothing to check the radia-tion of moisture from the earth. Her lightest skirtwould serve the purpose as well as the clumsiest fabricwhich we could fit up. But frost does not necessarily killeven tender plants if they are thawed properly. Theway to thaw them with safety is to syringe them withcold water in shade, not to put them into a sunnyplace. Feb. FEBRUARY—First and Second Weeks 1-14 We must continue our work of soil preparation this month, and endeavour to complete all big alterationsor additions, such as making borders, rockeries, lawns,paths, arches, pergolas, and fruit trellises. 66. BUDS, BLOOM, AND EARLY BIRD Flowers Verbenas.—In the mid-Victorian epoch the Verbenawas one of the pets of professional florists, and it sufferedthe common fate of being pampered and coddled, andcross-fertilised and over-propagated until it became aweakling, ever ready to fall a prey to a fungus—in thiscase mildew. So it fell under a cloud. But, sweet andpretty flower that it is, it was never forgotten, and itis now having a little revival. If the reader decidesto indulge himself in a bed of mixed seedlings this year,he is not at all likely to regret it. I advise him to sowin a warm greenhouse early this month, set his plants outthree inches apart in boxes when they begin to crowd,and harden them in a frame. There is an old speciesof V
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