The Window Gardener (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... The Camellia: History.--Culture.--Soil.--Temperature.--Totting.--Pruning.--Selection of Varieties. Orange And Lemon Trers, Culture.--Growth.--Blooming.--Varieties.--Seedlings.--lluddisgThedapiine: Pruning.--Potting.--Varieties.--Soil. The AZAlEA (15) Description.--Potting.--Culture--Pruning.--Varieties. The Heath: History.--Soil.--Drainage.--Watering.--Hard and Soft Wooded.--Temperature--Summer Culture.--Re potting.--Insects Rooting Plants.--Varieties. The Cyclamen: Potting.--Soil.--Growth.--Seedlings.--Varieties. dusty air of our rooms. The Wardian case is their proper place. Remember it is better to grow one plant well than two badly. Because you have roses, geraniums, and daphnes, which do well, it is no reason you should also grow verbenas, fuchsias, and azaleas; your space is sufficient for the first three only; then be content, and do not crowd your plants. Now let us first give in detail, with their treatment, a list of plants suitable for window gardening; then select those for peculiar exposures. N the selection of our plants, we must Le much influenced by the extent and location of our accommodations. Some jlj plants thrive with less heat and light than others. As a general rule, choose only green-house plants, avoiding any usually catalogued by nurserymen as stove plants. Discard ferns and lycopodia. With but few exceptions, these perish in the hot, dry, THE CAMELLIA The camellia is a native of China or Japan, from whence it was introduced to British gardens about the year 1739. The name was given in honor of Father Kamel, a Moravian priest, whose name, Latinized, became Camellus. The plants first introduced were fairly killed by kindness; an error not unfrequently repeated in our day with newly-discovered plants. They were planted in a stove, ...