. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 68 FA3IILIAR GARDEN FLOIFEES should be left alone for several years to form large ti;fto j but to increase them, it is only necessary to lift them in the spring and divide the roots and plant again. But this must be done with care, and it may sometimes Ije advisable to plant the pieces in a Ijed of sandy soil, or even to pot them and give them careful culture for one year, and then plant them out to make handsome specimens. We have Sjioken of ours as thriving on a heavy soil, but a light sandy soil is much better adapted fo
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 68 FA3IILIAR GARDEN FLOIFEES should be left alone for several years to form large ti;fto j but to increase them, it is only necessary to lift them in the spring and divide the roots and plant again. But this must be done with care, and it may sometimes Ije advisable to plant the pieces in a Ijed of sandy soil, or even to pot them and give them careful culture for one year, and then plant them out to make handsome specimens. We have Sjioken of ours as thriving on a heavy soil, but a light sandy soil is much better adapted for this plant, and a spacious rockery is the very best place on which the several varieties will most effectually display their beauties. The double-flowering spnder-wort is preferred by man\' to the single, because of its rosette-shaped flowers. It is a good thing to supplement l)ut not to supersede the single ilowers. It is admirably portrayed in the initial and tail â 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
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