. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. S54 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Fakt 111. 6393. Bij seed The plants from which seed is to be saved are to be separated from the stems, and treated in the same manner as seed-bearing auriculas. When ripe, it should be cut oft" with part of the stem, and s
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. S54 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Fakt 111. 6393. Bij seed The plants from which seed is to be saved are to be separated from the stems, and treated in the same manner as seed-bearing auriculas. When ripe, it should be cut oft" with part of the stem, and so preserved till the sowing season, which, as well as the mode of procedure, are, according to Maddock, the same as for the auricula. Emmerton says, flowers intended for seed should be selected on the same principle as he directs for the auricula ; and he recommends Pearson's Alexander and Nichol- son's Tantarara as excellent flowers to breed from. Knight's mode of castration may be adopted. ^ 6394. Justice says, he " has had great success in raising polyanthuses and primroses from ; He gathered the seed" generally about the 25th of June, and sowed it ten days afterwards in boxes, placed in the open air, under a wall or hedge with a north aspect. In July, he directs to " prepare a nursery-bed of the same earth in which they were sown, and plant them carefully out, taking up as much earth about their roots as you can, so as net to disturb their young fibres, planting them twelve inches asunder, and shading them from all sun until thev have struck new roots ; keep them clear from weeds, and give them gentle waterings, and let this nursery-bed be made in such a situation as to have the morning sun only. Some of them will show their flowers the same autumn, and many of them in the spring following. Select the best, and plant them in a bed bv themselves in a shady moist situation. In November, top-dress the plants, which will greatly strengthen them for the
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