The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . great family ofMyrtaceiC. One or two species are in cultivation here,and K. pomifera might readily be introduced. Aswill be seen from our cut, the fruit is not unlike thatof Eugenia Igni, and the flavour of the fruit is, as itseems, not dissimilar. throw out the soil from the inside to ju6t below thebottom of the frames, giving the bottom nearly thesame slope as the frames; I then lill them withleaves from the heap collected the previous year,along with any others that may have just fallen ;these are
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . great family ofMyrtaceiC. One or two species are in cultivation here,and K. pomifera might readily be introduced. Aswill be seen from our cut, the fruit is not unlike thatof Eugenia Igni, and the flavour of the fruit is, as itseems, not dissimilar. throw out the soil from the inside to ju6t below thebottom of the frames, giving the bottom nearly thesame slope as the frames; I then lill them withleaves from the heap collected the previous year,along with any others that may have just fallen ;these are firmly trodden, the frames are just sofar filled up as will allow for 8 or V> inches of soil,being put into them, the top of the soil being or G inches from the glass. I aim at having thetops of the foliage of the phints just about 4 inchesfrom the glass. The soil that was thrown outis put back on the leaves- an equal deptli all soil, be it remarked, is good rich mellowsoil, for although I crop the border duringsummer, with certain kinds of vegetables, I manure. Fig. oG.—KUNiEA POMiiEfiA: gbeenhouse :>Hacu with ediule purple 1 nuiT: nai. sue. (->ee p. VIOLET CULTUEE. (Contimied/ron p. 174 J Prepahinu the Frames. -I will now supposethe time for putting the plants into frames hascome round. The first half of September is,perhaps, the best time, although I have gene-rally put it oif until the third week, frames andlights not being at liberty till then. It matterslittle what size the frames are; if they are large, itmeans more plants; if small, fewer plants—that isall the difference. In choosing a for theframes try by all means to get one as high andsunny as possible. I set my frames on a borderfacing the south ; it has a good slope, and I give theframes as much slope as I can towards the sunwithout causing the lights to slide ofT. I sink theframes to half their depth in the ground, and then I it lieavily, so that it is m good
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