. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. diameter, one fills up the hole within ljgin. ofthe top, and, having consolidated the soil tothe desired degree, one simply plugs up the .holewith the plant and attached soil, as it comesfrom the pot. If one has adjusted the bore ofthe hole to the size of the ball of earth on theplant, nothing could be more perfect than thefit that is secured. After I have put in thenecessary soil, and before inserting the plant,I generally fill up the hole with water, and allowa few minutes for the soil to absorb it
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. diameter, one fills up the hole within ljgin. ofthe top, and, having consolidated the soil tothe desired degree, one simply plugs up the .holewith the plant and attached soil, as it comesfrom the pot. If one has adjusted the bore ofthe hole to the size of the ball of earth on theplant, nothing could be more perfect than thefit that is secured. After I have put in thenecessary soil, and before inserting the plant,I generally fill up the hole with water, and allowa few minutes for the soil to absorb sometimes also introduce a layer, ^ thickness, of finely-pounded glass, winchprevents worms working up through the soil,and incidentally secures drainage and inserted as I have described have manyadvantages. If they like to be squeezed into anarrow chink in a rock, that is precisely theposition in which they find themselves. It thiygrow best by having the narrowest possibletracks along which to send their roots one canbore the hole only about half through the stone,. [Photograph by W. J. Tasey. Copyright. Fig. 133.—rhododendrons shown by the society anonyme horticole louis van HOUTTE PERE AT THE GHENT SHOW. (See p. 313.) are about nine inches thick. I make the holewith a slight inclination downwards, so thatwater falling on the face of the stone tends torun into the hole. Moreover, the dip of thehole facilitates the operation of getting in thesoil. I never use the largest augur for makingthe hole the whole way through, but it some-times suits the habit of a plant to use the largestaugur for the first two inches, and to completewith the middle-sized or smallest one. Gener-ally, however, the hole is entirely made withthe fin. augur, though in a specially hard orspecially thick stalk it is often convenient tobore the last two or three inches with the If it is thought that the effect of havingthe hole right in the centre of the face of thestone
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