. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2106. A common hybrid form of Garden Rhododendron. are retentive of moisture; (21 plant in masses, at any rate while young, so that they may protect each other and prevent evaporation; (.'!) give the bed a northern exposure or a situation where the force of the midday sun is broken; (4) do not plant under or ne
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2106. A common hybrid form of Garden Rhododendron. are retentive of moisture; (21 plant in masses, at any rate while young, so that they may protect each other and prevent evaporation; (.'!) give the bed a northern exposure or a situation where the force of the midday sun is broken; (4) do not plant under or near trees like elm, oak or maple which make undue inroads on the 2107. Grafting of Rhododendron. 't at A; veueer-gruft at B. ter and in summer give heavy watering wljenever the weather is excessivefy hot or dry. iSo//. âThe bed should be prepared by excavating to the desired dimensions and at least three feet deep. The poor material shouhl he <liscarded, but the good soil can be replarc<l, adding enough peat, etc. (see abovi.' I to make good that wliicli was rejected; all should be thoroughly an<l carefully mixed. Peat, al- though excellent, is not necessary. Yellow loam or hazel loam, if not too sandy, is equally good and is im- l)rove<l by additions of huTuus. To nearly pure peat an admixture of sand is heneticial; the essential point is ihat all soils for these plants must be fine. The beds shouhl be prepared in autumn and left to settle all win- ter, due allowance being made for shrinking. In spring level otf to the grade of the adjacent land and do not leave "rounded ; A bed higher at the center than at the sides perhaps makes a better display of the plants, liut it is more likely to dry up and does not catch alt the water possilde from occasional showers. It is gen- erally conceded that lime soils and manures contaiTung lime, , wood ashes and bone meal, are injurious to Rhododendrons; in limestone regions it is undoubtedly advisab
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