Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo08paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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m, and, with tlie stronger species, by the occasionaluse of manure water. A little heat and a moist atmosphere will further be ser-viceable. Pelargoniums, which have bloomed early, may be cut down, their rootstrimmed, and planted in smaller pots, to be again excited to growth. Transfer uniiealtliy greenhouse shrubs to the open ground ; keep climbers ofevery sort well trained, and within due limits ; sow and transplant annuals ; repotCockscombs, Balsams, and other rapid-growing plants as they require it; stakeDahli.as, Hollyhocks, Chry.santhemums, &c., when they get more than six inchesin height; clear oft insects as speedily .and as cfiectually as possible by the ordinarymeans ; plant cuttings of laurels and similar evergreens ; propagate exotic shrnbsto the requisite extent; plunge Alpine plants that happen to be in pots to the rim,in cool situations ; put in cuttings of pinks ; and impregnate flowers that are wishedto be hybridized, as well as collect seed from those bearing it.
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