Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . ean, and free from dead leaves ; and theplants should not be too much crowded. Nothing can iouk worsethan pale sickly green-house plants, drawn up to an unnatural length,and so weak that their stems will not stand upright without the aidof a stick. When green-houses are crowded with plants, some ofwhich are too far from the light, this must be the case ; and when itis, it is quite hopeless to expect either healthy plants or fine it is adviseable to have saucers to the pots of plants kept inrooms, for the sake of cleanhn
Gardening for ladies, and, Companion to the flower-garden . ean, and free from dead leaves ; and theplants should not be too much crowded. Nothing can iouk worsethan pale sickly green-house plants, drawn up to an unnatural length,and so weak that their stems will not stand upright without the aidof a stick. When green-houses are crowded with plants, some ofwhich are too far from the light, this must be the case ; and when itis, it is quite hopeless to expect either healthy plants or fine it is adviseable to have saucers to the pots of plants kept inrooms, for the sake of cleanhness, it is much better for those kept inthe green-house to be without them. All persons having a greatnumber of plants in pots, should be provided with a small watering-pot, having a veiy long spout, for the convenience of reaching thedifferent pots; and care should be taken to give water to each pot insuccession, by resting the spout of the watering-pot in turn on watering-pot may have roses of two or three different kinds, toscrew on as Watering Pots for Gre«n-House Plants. As different green-house plants require a somewhat different treat-ment, the following directions for the management of a few of themost popular may be useful to my readers. Camellias.—The Camellia is a plant which requires abundance ofwater, and is yet soon killed by suffering stagnant moisture to re-main about the roots. When grown in pots there should be abun-dfeit drainage; that is, the pots should be nearly a quarter filledwith potshreds. The soil should be peat-earth, and sand, whichmay be mixed with a little vegetable mould, if it is desired to havethe plants of very luxuriant growth ; and the plants should be pottedhigh, so as to let the collar of the plant be quite above the rim of the 86 THE GREEN-HOUSE.—CAMELLIAS, pot. The pots should not have saucers, or if they have for the sakeof cleanhness, the water should be carefully poured out of them hn-mediatcly after the plants
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