Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture (1918) (14804592313)

Identifier: fruitsvegetables00gard (find matches)
Title: Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Frank D. (Frank Duane), 1864-1963
Subjects: Fruit-culture. (from old catalog) Vegetable gardening. (from old catalog) Floriculture. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago, The John C. Winston company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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. Inpotting up plants fromthe sununer garden—g(>raniums, snaj)-dragon, ten weeksstocks, petuni:us, scarletsage—set them in ashaded corner for a fewdays and si/ritKjc thetops daily before plac-ing in the sunny win-dow. Nothing is moreunsightly than a lot ofleggy old plants orpuny weak ones.(Jrow few plants andliave kinds which willMake cuttings and keej) the i)lants vigorous and shaj)ely. Cutback the old plants, remembering that flowers are on new wood, and thatit is ejisior for an old i)lant to grow a lot of new shoots tlian to carryleaves on the tips of long, lanky branches. So cut the old jilants backvigorously <»nce in a while. In select ing plants at the florists for home window gardening, do not beinterested in th()s of his hottest house; choose plants from a night tempera-ture of about 50 degrees. Plants like equable temperatures a.s well as * Courteay of Tbo Countryside Mogaaine, N. Y.
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Removing tue Plant fuom Old Pot. thrive. WINDOW GARDENING 19.3 regularity of other conditions. Do not allow the room temperature to getabove 70 degrees in daytime nor below 50 degrees at night. Watering.—The watering of plants is largely a matter of judgment.It is offered as good advice that a plant should be watered when it needs it,and contrariwise 7iot when it does not need it. Water copiously once in twodays rather than a little each clay, unless the earth has become dried out.This can be determined by tapping the flower pot with the finger nail; aclear, ringing sound will indicate dryness; a dull sound shows a dampcondition and water not required. Watering at the roots is not sufficient,strange to say. Plants respond also to a wetting of the leaves. This can