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Gardening and monthly calendar of operations
Gardening and monthly calendar of operations Author:Gardening Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: those that were poor or only middling, throw away; for it ia waste of time to propagate anything of a second or third- rate character. As soon as your good plant... more »s begin to look shahhy, cut off the flower-stems, and trim out any flower - THE CINEBABIA. buds that may be pushing from below; it would be a folly to let them hloom any longer, hecause the plants would be exhausted. Prepare a bed of coal-ashes in an open shady place, and on this bed range the pots containing the plants. If any offsets have risen and grown pretty strong, slip them off very neatly with a sharp knife, taking care that you have as muiSi root as belongs to them, and then pile up round the stem of each of the old plants a little cone of fine sandy mould, the more sandy the better. Pot the offsets at once into small pots, water them, and place them in a cold frame, on a bed of ashes; shade them for a fortnight, and by that time they 'will be well rooted. In the meantime, the old plants will from the base of the stem put out fibres into the saudy soil that was plied round the collar of each, and numerous offsets will break through, each of which must be slipped off when possessed of two or more leaves, and potted as just described. In this way, every good plant will give you from half-a-dozen to a dozen young ones, and you will have stock to start with. When the offsets have been potted about three weeks, they will require shifting into pots a size larger, and though at the first potting any light fibrous sandy soil will do—and there ought to be plenty of sharp silver-sand mixed with it— at the next potting they must have a soil specially prepared for them, and this soil must be compounded thus: —Get some turfy loam from an upland pasture, some two-yeur old leaf-mould, and some fibrous peat, some v...« less