The American Flower Garden Directory Containing Practical Directions for the Culture of Plants, in the Hot-House, Garden-House, Flower Garden and Rooms or Parlours, for Every Month in the Year

This is a necessary and yearly operation to keep a supply of plants, and likewise to have them always in perfection. As the process of laying, though simple, may not be known to...

All half hardy plants, such as _Wall-flower_, _German stocks_, _Sweet-bay_, tender roses, with several others, should be protected as above directed for Carnations. Earth or tan...

Honeysuckles of every description may with all freedom be trimmed, providing the frost is not very severe. These are very frequently allowed to become too crowded with wood, and...

Having given the names and characters of a few herbaceous plants, all or most of them easily obtained, many of them extremely handsome, and such as agree best with transplanting...

Where the Hot-house has been properly conducted, the plants generally will have a vigorous and healthful aspect. An error frequently arises in the conducting of these department...

If they be constantly kept where there is fire, let the window be opened some inches; two or three time a day, for a few minutes, thereby making the air of the apartment more co...

Now is the season to plant all kinds of evergreen trees and shrubs. In most seasons the middle of the month is the most proper time, the weather then being mild and moist; or if...

In this department, insects begin to increase by hundreds, and too frequently their ravages are very obvious before their progress is arrested. We will treat of those which are...

_Amaryllis._ This is a genus of splendid flowering bulbs containing about eighty species, and one hundred and forty varieties. They are natives of South America, but more than o...

No. 11. _Rosa odoràta álba_, or White-tea, is not so odorous as No. 8, but blooms more profusely, and grows more freely. The beautiful and neat appearance of the buds, when half...

_Táxus nucífera_, is the only species that requires protection, and bears a small acorn; flowers are trifling; an evergreen, with ovate, lanceolate foliage, thickly set on the w...

_Dáphne_, is a genus of diminutive shrubs, mostly evergreens, of great beauty and fragrance. Very few species of them are in our collections. _D. odòra_, frequently called _D. í...

Look over the bulbs that are out of the ground, and examine those that require planting. _Fritillària_, about twenty species, but few of them generally cultivated, except _F. im...

_Alonsòas_, five species, all soft wooded, small, shrubby plants, with scarlet flowers. _A. incisifòlia_ is known amongst us under the name of _Hemímeris urticifólia_, and _A. l...

_Magnífera_, Mango tree. There are two species. _M. índica_ is in our collections, and bears a fruit which is so highly esteemed in the East Indies, as to be considered preferab...

_Méspilus japónica._ The plant, known under that name, is now _Eriabòtrya japónica_, Loquat, is a fine plant with large lanceolate, distantly serrated leaves, white underneath;...

All or most of the plants that have been in the cellar during winter, such as _Pomegranates_, _Lagerstræmias_, _Hydrángeas_, _Oleanders_, _Sweet-bay_, _&c._ may be brought out t...

_Combrètums._ Nine species of beautiful flowering climbing plants, standing in very high estimation. The leaves of the principal part of them are ovate, acute, flowers small but...

_C. rubricáulis_, Lady Campbell's, very double, colour very rich dark red, with stripes of pure white, beautifully contrasted. The richness of this flower is very striking, and...

_Fúchsias_, Ladies' ear drop. About twelve species. Several of them elegant and handsome shrubs. _F. virgáta_ and _F. cònica_ are the most splendid of deciduous Green-house shru...

_Chrysánthemums._ There are few of this genus of any consequence as herbaceous plants, except the varieties of _C. sinénse_, of which there are about fifty, all desirable; but i...

This volume owes its existence principally to the repeated requests of a number of our fair patrons, and amateur supporters, whose enquiries and wishes for a practical manual on...

_Of Fences._--Where domestic buildings do not serve as a boundary, either paling or hedge-fence has to be resorted to: we would prefer the former on the north or north-west side...

PELARGÒNIUM 110, 273, Stork's-bill. _Gerànium_. 12 álbum. macrànthum. grandiflòrum. Navarino. Longstrethium. Jacksonium. Lucretia. Leopold. Lafayette. triumphans. Jeffersoniaum....

ERÍCAS 89. Heath. 6 mediterránea, common. 5 aristáta, awned. bàccans, arbutus-flowered. bowieána, Bowie's. conférta, crowded-flowered. élegans, elegant. fasciculáris, cluster-fl...

[We have not been minute in the list of annuals, as they are generally known, and a judicious selection adapted to this country may be found in the catalogue of D. & C. Landreth...