. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. U FAMIlIAJi GAllDEN FlOVETiS. secure a nice luit-culoureJ libvous heath soil. For the free growers about one-sixth of silver sand should be mixed with the peatj and for the slow growers about one-fourth. The ])lauts must be re-potted annually until they acquire considerable size, when it may be advised to keejj some of them in their p(jts two jears, but refreshed by renewal of tlie top soil. Any excess of moisture is injurious to heaths; on the other hand, if kept too dry they will become rusty and cast their leaves. The pr
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. U FAMIlIAJi GAllDEN FlOVETiS. secure a nice luit-culoureJ libvous heath soil. For the free growers about one-sixth of silver sand should be mixed with the peatj and for the slow growers about one-fourth. The ])lauts must be re-potted annually until they acquire considerable size, when it may be advised to keejj some of them in their p(jts two jears, but refreshed by renewal of tlie top soil. Any excess of moisture is injurious to heaths; on the other hand, if kept too dry they will become rusty and cast their leaves. The proper place for a collec- tion is an airy span roof house, where they should always be freel^r ventilated, and have only as much artificial heat as will keep them safe against frost. Daring July and August it is advisable to keej) them out of d(_)ors, so placed that worms cannot enter the pots and the mid-day sim cannot scorch them. Indeed, all extremes of heat and cold and drought and humidity must be carefully avoided. The best free-growing kinds for a beginner are Bnwieuna, Crueniii, Exsnrijens, Flammea, Jiefnhjeiis, iriliiioreaiia, Iii- ieniiedia, Bergiana, Gnieilis, , lli/eiiiuHs, Liii- neana, l-'i/raii/iihilis, and 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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