. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. SET 542 S H A SETS are the tubers, or portions of I " The length of these rolls at Sion tubers, employed for propngating tube- I House is between fifty and sixty feet, rous-rooted plants. It may be accepted ; but we have no doubt they might be as a rule universally applicable to them, ] made longer, since this depends on the that a moderately-sized whole tuber is ] diameter of the pole or rod, a, and the always to be preferred to a cutting of a \ toughness of the timber employed, or tuber. The latter are invariably morel its power to resist t
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. SET 542 S H A SETS are the tubers, or portions of I " The length of these rolls at Sion tubers, employed for propngating tube- I House is between fifty and sixty feet, rous-rooted plants. It may be accepted ; but we have no doubt they might be as a rule universally applicable to them, ] made longer, since this depends on the that a moderately-sized whole tuber is ] diameter of the pole or rod, a, and the always to be preferred to a cutting of a \ toughness of the timber employed, or tuber. The latter are invariably morel its power to resist torsion. On one end subject to failure, but if employed, it is ' of this rod, and not on both, as is usual, a good plan to roll them in gypsum i a ratchet wheel, 6, is fixed, with a plate powder. This checks the escape of! against it, c, so as to form a pulley their sap, and is friendly to vegetation SEYMERIA. Two species. Hardy annuals. Seeds. Peaty soil. SHADING deserves more attention tlian it usually obtains, for there is not plant when in blossom that is not pro- groove between, d, to which a cord is fastened, and about three inches further on the rod is fixed a third iron wheel, about six inches in diameter, and half an inch thick, e. This last wheel runs an iron groove, /, which extends longed in beauty and vigour by being along the end rafter or end wall of the shaded from the midday sun. Nor should shading be attended to merely roof to be covered. " The canvas or netting being sewed with regard to blooming plants; for I together of a sufficient size to cover the they are benefited by it during all roof, one side of it is nailed to a slip of periods of their growth. Every plant! wood placed against the back wall, that transpires at a rate great in proportion ! is, along the upper ends of the sashes; to the elevation of the temperature : the other side is nailed to the rod, a. the greater the transpiration the more abundant is the absorption of moisture; and the mome
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