. 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. Wrong method of planting. In the left hand picture the tree is obviously placed
. 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. Wrong method of planting. In the left hand picture the tree is obviously placed too high, and its roots are also cramped. In the other case the soil is mounded up too much, thus shedding off the water SHRUBS For the garden, whether large or small, some shrubs are neces- They not only furnish a good foKage background, but some are very beautiful for their flowers, which are not only decorative in a landscape way, but are highly useful for cutting. They are the proper sort of plants for hedges and for screening unsightly objects. In estabhshing a new planting of shrubs give the soil good, deep preparation and spade in a liberal supply of stable manure and bone- meal. Let the planting be done either in the Spring or FaU. The Fall is preferred because there is less work which is urgent at that time of the year. They should have an opportunity to get their roots This tree is correctly planted, each root estabUshed before permanent well spread, and neither too deep nor too freezing. In the Spring they high. The dotted lines show where to dig i,ijv iiUi? to lift it ° should be set out before. 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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