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_Digging._--Every one knows that the first operation of the gardener, whether a new garden is to be made, or merely an old one re-planted, is to dig the ground; though but comparatively few persons are aware why this is so essentially necessary to be done. When a piece of roug...
_Digging._--Every one knows that the first operation of the gardener, whether a new garden is to be made, or merely an old one re-planted, is to dig the ground; though but compa...
5. CHAPTER II.Most persons imagine that manure is all that is wanted to make a garden fruitful; and thus, if the fruit-trees do not bear, and the flowers and vegetables do not thrive, manure...
6. CHAPTER III._Sowing Seeds._--The principal points to be attended to in sowing seeds are, first, to prepare the ground so that the young and tender roots thrown out by the seeds may easily p...
7. CHAPTER IV.Properly speaking, there are only two modes of propagating plants, viz.: by seed and by division. The first raises a new individual, resembling the plant that produced the seed,...
8. CHAPTER V._Pruning_ appears, at first sight, a most laborious and unfeminine occupation; and yet perhaps there is no operation of gardening which a lady may more easily accomplish. With t...
9. CHAPTER VI.In almost all gardens, it is customary to set apart a portion of the ground for the culture of culinary vegetables; and, in villas and country seats, this portion is quite detac...
10. CHAPTER VII.The fruit trees in a kitchen garden are of three kinds: the wall trees, the espaliers, and the standards. To these may be added the fruit shrubs, and the vines; which last are g...
11. CHAPTER VIII.Whatever doubts may be entertained as to the practicability of a lady attending to the culture of culinary vegetables and fruit-trees, none can exist respecting her management o...
12. CHAPTER IX.The word Lawn may probably conjure up ideas of too large an extent of ground to be managed by a lady; but when I use the term, I do not mean an extensive park-like surface of le...
13. CHAPTER X._Rock-work_, though composed of somewhat ponderous materials, is very frequently arranged according to female taste; and one of the most remarkable examples in England (that at...
14. CHAPTER XI._The management of plants in rooms_ is extremely difficult, from the want of proper light and pure air: though this latter want may, in some measure, be obviated, by opening the...
15. CHAPTER XII.January may be called the digging month, as almost the only gardening operation that can be performed in it is digging, or rather trenching the ground; and even this cannot be d...