. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. WAT 627 WAT the refuse should be thrown out upon the borders which separate the trenches from each other. These borders may be planted with artichokes, cabbages, or cauliflowers, which will here attain a great size. Cress-grounds should al- ways be at a distance from trees, on account of the leaves, which otherwise drive amongst the plants, and require much time to pick out. There are two weeds which, even in the cleanest cress-grounds, can scarcely be kept under; these are the Duckweed and Zannichellia palustris, which both mul- tiply so quickly,
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. WAT 627 WAT the refuse should be thrown out upon the borders which separate the trenches from each other. These borders may be planted with artichokes, cabbages, or cauliflowers, which will here attain a great size. Cress-grounds should al- ways be at a distance from trees, on account of the leaves, which otherwise drive amongst the plants, and require much time to pick out. There are two weeds which, even in the cleanest cress-grounds, can scarcely be kept under; these are the Duckweed and Zannichellia palustris, which both mul- tiply so quickly, that unless carefully rooted out, they do great injury to the cresses. The Zannichellia may be kept under by careful hand-weeding, and the Duckweed by raising the wa- ter, so as to make it float above the cress plants, when it may be skimmed off. Planting in Borders.—This must be done in September and in a moist shady border. Plant slips, and the only cul- tivation necessary is to dig the earth fine, to draw a slight trench with a hoe, to fill this with water until it becomes a mud, to cOver it about an inch deep with drift sand, and then to stick in the slips about six inches apart, watering them until established. The sand keeps the plants clean. They will be ready for gathering from in a very few weeks, and the shoots should be invariably cut and not picked. They are not so mild flavoured as those grown in water, but then they are free from aquatic insects, &c. WATERFALL. See Cascade. WATER GERMANDER. Teucrium Scordium. WATERING ENGINE. See En- gine. WATERING POTS. These should have roses pierced with very fine holes; the diameter of those usually used is too large. Long-spouted watering pots are required for watering plants in pots upon shelves. French watering pots have zigzag bends in the spout to break from the plant the force of the water. Shelf watering pots are small and flat- bodied for giving water to plants over- head, and near the glass in green-houses or s
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