. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. 188 GARDEN GUIDE The most pernicious habit is the one which so many en- thusiast
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. 188 GARDEN GUIDE The most pernicious habit is the one which so many en- thusiastic gardeners have of priming everything in the Spring, and not only that, but making the graceful Barberries, Spiraeas, and Mock Oranges into formal, stiff shapes, due entirely to cutting their bushes with shoots all the same length. Many Spiraeas and Golden Bells never bloom well, while the Hydrangea blooms per- fectly, merely because every- one prunes in the esirly Spring, not at all the proper time for Golden BeUs or Spiraeas but exactly proper for Hydrangeas. Spring blooming-shrubs must. 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 Dick, John Harrison, 1877- ed. New York, A. T. De La Mare company, inc
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