. 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. Flower pot flUed with soil and sand, the sand at the top. Soft wooded cuttings r
. 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. Flower pot flUed with soil and sand, the sand at the top. Soft wooded cuttings root most read- ily if placed around the edges of the pot. Seed- lings transplanted may f be placed similarly. Section of a typical Flower: p—Petal: The petals taken together are called the corolla, s—Sepal: Sepals taken together are called the calys. st—Stamen: The male part of plant, fi—^The filament or thread-like part of stamen, an—^The filament or pollen producing part of stamen, pi—Pistil or female part of flower. sti—the stigma or part receiving the pollen, o—the ovary which bears the seeds, r—Receptacle, often helps to make up the fruit. 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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