This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... foliage; but few blossoms. Their present condition and treatment is this: --The large specimens are composed of one strong and woody main stem, and several subordinate ones; all, however, of sound and matured character: that is to say, wood of some four or five years old, firm, and possessing a shelling character of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... foliage; but few blossoms. Their present condition and treatment is this: --The large specimens are composed of one strong and woody main stem, and several subordinate ones; all, however, of sound and matured character: that is to say, wood of some four or five years old, firm, and possessing a shelling character of bark, which appears as though it would fain ape that of some of our timber trees. When profuse blossoming is past, which, with us, happens about Christmas, they are allowed to sink into a kind of vegetable dishabille, which would greatly alarm any young gentleman taking his first lessons in horticultural matters; they are supplied with water in a most niggardly way, thrust away into any corner in-doors, where frost and a coaxing temperature are alike unknown, and the consequence is, they cast almost every leaf. And now, I have no doubt, the necessary amount of solidification becomes confirmed, through the total absence of all exciting or stimulating causes; there is no expenditure of the vital action for many weeks, and our rustic, uncouth, and ill-used Fuchsia wakes, in due time, like a giant refreshed. I must now beg the reader to take a kind of magical bound over some six or eight weeks, when a thorough reversal of practice takes place. They are now tumbled out of their tubs or pots with little ceremony; a portion of the loosened soil dislodged, and re-potted in the very same box or pot again; in fact, what gardeners term a partial disrooting is practised. Thenceforward, the plants are "set to work;" they are introduced to any warm corner in any house which happens to be at liberty; perhaps the Peach-house, or it may be a Vinery, only taking care to secure not only warmth but atmospheric moisture. The plant now is speedily all?gSJ73...
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