Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . - much earlier i899] MEEHANS MONTHLY -GENERAL GARDENING. 171 than they do in their natural times and places. Between the pots, near the outer edge, difter-I have a two-sash pit about 18 inches deep. ent species of ferns are placed with mossOn its three highest sides, I made a shelf with planted on the leaf-mold. The ferns in time. NEW GERANIUM, HALL DESCRIPTION. PAGE 170. a narrow board in front. On this shelf I haveimbedded three-inch flower pots filled with wildpansies with loam around them and blacksand
Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . - much earlier i899] MEEHANS MONTHLY -GENERAL GARDENING. 171 than they do in their natural times and places. Between the pots, near the outer edge, difter-I have a two-sash pit about 18 inches deep. ent species of ferns are placed with mossOn its three highest sides, I made a shelf with planted on the leaf-mold. The ferns in time. NEW GERANIUM, HALL DESCRIPTION. PAGE 170. a narrow board in front. On this shelf I haveimbedded three-inch flower pots filled with wildpansies with loam around them and blacksandy leaf-mold on the top of the loam. will grow and hang down and over the outerside of the shelf, partly hiding it. On the earthbottom, pots of different sizes are placed inwhich are planted Phlox of different colors 172 MEEHANS MONTHLY—GENERAL GARDENING. [Nov. and species, Spring-beauty Claytoiiia I Irginica,and several others. On the shelf at its westernend are planted Viola odorata, both wild andtame ; and between is the Maiden-hair Fern,Adiantuvi pedatian and Lip Fern, Cheilanthesvestita. The Walking-leaf Fern, Camptosorusrhizophyllus, is planted in pots which have twothirds of their depth filled with broken stone,with two inches of sandy leaf-mold, on whichthis plant is placed so as to have perfect drain-age and be more like home to them. Then Ihave a few pots with summer blooming bulbs—flo
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