Archive image from page 495 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 The next sketch is a Pinery, up with Mr. Rendle's tank. fitted It is described as ' a very useful and most desirable structure for the growth of the Pine Apple, with a hollow wall, recommended by all garden architects in preference to a solid wall—the heat or cold being not so readily conducted as through a solid mass of masonry.' Mr. Rendle might have added, that hollow walls are also much drier.— Rendle,s Treatise on the Tank System. See Stove, &c. REQUIEN
Archive image from page 495 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 The next sketch is a Pinery, up with Mr. Rendle's tank. fitted It is described as ' a very useful and most desirable structure for the growth of the Pine Apple, with a hollow wall, recommended by all garden architects in preference to a solid wall—the heat or cold being not so readily conducted as through a solid mass of masonry.' Mr. Rendle might have added, that hollow walls are also much drier.— Rendle,s Treatise on the Tank System. See Stove, &c. REQUIENIA obcordata. Stove ever- green shrub. Young cuttings. Peat, loam, and sand. RESEDA. Mignonette. Seventeen species. Chiefly hardy annuals, bien- nials, herbaceous perennials, and a few green-house evergreens. Cuttings or seeds. Light rich soil. See Mignon- ette. RETARDING requires as much skill as forcing, for as the latter requires the application of all that is suitable to the promotion of a plant's rapid healthy growth, so retarding requires the with- holding from it of those contingencies. Thus to retard growth, the lowest tem- perature, and the least degree of light compatible with healthy growth must be secured; and to this end plants for succession are often placed on the north side of a wall. Then again, as in the case of rasp- berries and strawberries, plants are often cut down in the spring, compelling them to form fresh foliage and stems, and thus be productive in the autumn instead of the summer. The vegetation of many bulbs may be prevented by merely keeping them dry, and, indeed, the withholding the usual supply of water, giving it only in diminished quantities, is necessary in all retarding treatment. To secure the entire quiescence of bulbs, and of such plants as will bear so low a tempera- ture, the atmosphere of the ice-house is effectual ; and to this end it should have a few shelves for the support of boxes or flower pots. Banks of earth ranging east and
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