The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . were withfive kinds of soil. He planted some of hiswell-rooted cuttings in sand, in loam, inmanure, in manure and leaves, and in pureleaves. The leaves were not decomposed,but had been used to bank hot-beds duringthe winter. All the violets grew—those in the ma-nure being sickly, while those in the leavessurpassed all their rivals; they made stout,stocky plants, with short dark green leaves,and set a plenty of flower-buds. Duringtheir season of growth he frequently liftedthe plants to examine their progress, andfound the clean white
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . were withfive kinds of soil. He planted some of hiswell-rooted cuttings in sand, in loam, inmanure, in manure and leaves, and in pureleaves. The leaves were not decomposed,but had been used to bank hot-beds duringthe winter. All the violets grew—those in the ma-nure being sickly, while those in the leavessurpassed all their rivals; they made stout,stocky plants, with short dark green leaves,and set a plenty of flower-buds. Duringtheir season of growth he frequently liftedthe plants to examine their progress, andfound the clean white roots had, as it were,sewed masses of leaves together; and whenhe lifted a violet it would raise by its rootsa mass a foot in circumference. Accord-ingly, when he prepared his tables for win 176 The Horticulturist. ter forcing, he covered them with a thick After beginning to force, the thermometerbed of leaves, and no more loam than was kept as nearly as possible at a springwould fill the space between the plants, temperature—an average of 60° by day. Fig. 65.—Sectional View of Caldcrs Houses. A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D,E, E, F, G, G, H, J. Outside posts and plank frame. Inside do. Plank bottom of tables. Joists spiked to posts to sustain water-pipes. Water-pipes. Floor of alley. Fixed sashes. Movable sashes. K, Plank ridge with half round molding for stop. L, , M, Outside earth. N, N, Mushroom beds (not in Calders house).O, O, Lettuce beds. P, Violet , Q, Subterranean ventilation (not in Calders house)to introduce air warm. Ratchet for opening and fastening movable sash R, R, Air space between tables and walls (not inat ridge. Calders house). and 4(P by night; and as a consequence from the 1st of February. The flowersof the moderate heat and good food, the were engaged by a florist at 1 cent each,violet houses were purple with blossoms more or less; in the week ending Feb. 22,
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