. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . The plunging ofpots. may be inserted a less depth (as at c). 135# Transplanting established plants and trees. In setting potted plants out of doors, it is nearly always ad-visable to plunge them, —that is to set the pots into the earth, —unless the place is very wet. The pots are then watered bythe rainfall, and demand little care. If the plants are to be THE HANDLING OF THE PLANTS 125 returned to the house in the fall, they should not be allowed toroot throu
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . The plunging ofpots. may be inserted a less depth (as at c). 135# Transplanting established plants and trees. In setting potted plants out of doors, it is nearly always ad-visable to plunge them, —that is to set the pots into the earth, —unless the place is very wet. The pots are then watered bythe rainfall, and demand little care. If the plants are to be THE HANDLING OF THE PLANTS 125 returned to the house in the fall, they should not be allowed toroot through the hole in the pot, and the rooting may be pre-vented by turning the potaround every few days. Largedecorative plants may bemade to look as if growingnaturally in the lawn by sink-ing the pot or box just belowthe surface and rolling the sodover it, as suggested in A space around and be-low the tub may be providedto insure drainage. Tub-plants. For the shifting of verylarge tub-plants, a box or tubwith movable sides, as in , is handy and 136. Setting large tub-plants in the lawn. The plant-box recommended toparties who grew plants for exhibition at the Worlds Fair isshown in Fig. 138. It is made of strong boards or A is shown the inside of one of twoopposite sections or sides, four feet wideat top, three feet wide at bottom, andthree feet high. The cleats are two-by-four scantlings, through which holes arebored to admit the bolts with which thebox is to be held together. B is an out-side view of one of the alternating sections,three feet four inches wide at top, two feet four inches atbottom, and three feet deep. A one-by-six strip is nailedthrough the center to give strength. C is an end view of A,showing the bolts and also a two-by-four cleat to which thebottom is to be nailed. This box was used mostly for trans-
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