. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. SB FAMILIAR GASDEX FLOWERS. get full of roots, keep them drier au'I cooler, and give plenty of air, which will soon cause flowers to appear; then select plants with best flowers, rub every flower-bud oif them, fresh pot, disentangling the roots a little as you proceed, and grow them on as advised above; and what you lose in time you will make up in ; These directions provide for a check by allowing the plants to become pot-bound, and for another check by the process of rubbing the flower-buds off, so as to c
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. SB FAMILIAR GASDEX FLOWERS. get full of roots, keep them drier au'I cooler, and give plenty of air, which will soon cause flowers to appear; then select plants with best flowers, rub every flower-bud oif them, fresh pot, disentangling the roots a little as you proceed, and grow them on as advised above; and what you lose in time you will make up in ; These directions provide for a check by allowing the plants to become pot-bound, and for another check by the process of rubbing the flower-buds off, so as to compel the plants to produce another crop. And •\\hat is the result ? Tall, attenuated plants, with poor flowers on the side stems, and no fine flowers anywhere. We see numerous wretched bal- sams at flower shows that have been grown in this way. Now, let us ask Nature al)out it, and her reply w\\\ Ijc that the finest flowers are the first produced, and ajijiear in the centre of the plant; therefore the remo\'al of the is a mistake, and the imposition of any check is a mistake, and there is no balsam so beautiful as tlie one that has been generously grown and allowed to flower at its oV\-n time and in its own Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
Size: 1655px × 1510px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., book, bookdecade1870, booksubjectfloriculture, booksubjectflowers
