The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, Volum 2

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Hovey and Company, 1836

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Pàgina 268 - We all know that hybrid plants are constantly produced in every garden, and that improvements of the most remarkable kind are yearly occurring in consequence.
Pàgina 190 - Where the water is not at hand, so that it may be easily carried or wheeled by men, a horse with a water-barrel on wheels should be used. As soon as the plant has been put into its place the earth should be filled in, leaving a sufficient hollow round the stem, and as far as the roots extend, to hold...
Pàgina 411 - The flowers are of a rich carmine, with a blotch of a deeper colour at the base of each of the three lower sepals (or petals). It throws up a spike to the height of twelve or eighteen inches, on which appear two or three lateral branches, each containing from six to ten flowers : several of them are generally open at once, and make a charming display. The bulbs may be grown in pots or in the border. The soil, in which they seem to flourish best, should be composed of sandy peat and loam, in the proportion...
Pàgina 93 - In the female the mammary gland measures from three and a half to four and a half inches in diameter, and from one and a half to five inches in thickness.
Pàgina 317 - Hilo immediately. So far as could be ascertained, the guide was an Englishman, a convict from Botany Bay, who left a vessel at the Sandwich Islands some years previously: he had a wife and one child with him, to which circumstance was attributed his delay. In the meantime, it was feared that the captain could not convey the remains of Mr.
Pàgina 316 - ... taking wild cattle ; describing them as being near the places to which the animals resorted to drink. Soon after Mr. Douglas had dismissed his guide, he went back a short distance to get a bundle, which he had forgotten ; and, as he was retracing his steps, in some fatal moment, he fell into one of the pits, into which a bullock had previously fallen. He was found dead in the pit by these same natives, who, ignorant at the time, of his passing, were in pursuit of bullocks, and, on coming up to...
Pàgina 112 - ... of the supply of moisture, without any chance of saturation; the power of examining the state of the cuttings at any time, without injuring them, by lifting out the inner pot; the superior drainage, so essential in propagating, by having such a thin layer of soil; the roots being placed so near the sides of both pots; and the facility with which the plants, when rooted, can be parted for potting off, by taking out the inner pot, and with a common table-knife...
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