. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. 430 AMERICAN HUME GARDEN. must be either cultivated upon the hilling system or limited to its o-\vn space by running the grass-edger, or a substitute for it, along each side of it from time to time, cutting off and re- moving all runners, and maintaining a perfect separation be- tween it and the beds; or the beds may be made five rows wide, the centre row of
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. 430 AMERICAN HUME GARDEN. must be either cultivated upon the hilling system or limited to its o-\vn space by running the grass-edger, or a substitute for it, along each side of it from time to time, cutting off and re- moving all runners, and maintaining a perfect separation be- tween it and the beds; or the beds may be made five rows wide, the centre row of each being of a perfect-flowered variety, and kept apart from the others with the grass-edger, as above directed. The blossoms of these will supply the deficiency of fertilizers in your beds, and secure full crops. The following kinds are of reputation in their several classes. Either of the varieties comprised in the fu-st of the follow- ing classes may be planted as fertilizers in combination with those of the second, but perhaps No. 1 or No. .3 will prove as desirable and successful as any for the end sought. CLASS I. Varieties having perfect or bi-sexual flowers, bearing their full natural crop of fruit when planted alone. Sometimes â \wonglv called staminatcs. NO. 1. LAEGE EAKLY SCARLET. Fig. 295. .A .iSMu. Pretty large, round ovate; tender and rich. Color a fine bright scarlet. A good bearer, and ripens early. This is an improved sub-variety of the old or native early scarlet, and very superior to it in all 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 Watson, Alexander. New York, Harper & Brothers
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