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Every lady her own flower gardener. Addressed to the industrious and economical. Containing simple and practical directions for cultivating plants and flowers in the garden and in rooms. By Louisa Johnson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1856 Johnson
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Louisa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardening.
- Flowers.
- Physical Description:
- 119 p. illus. 19 cm.
- Edition:
- Rev. from the 14th London ed., and adapted to the use of American ladies.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, C. M. Saxton, 1856 [c1854]
- Contents:
- Introductions. Pleasures of gardening
- How conducive to health
- Early taste for gardening in England
- Pleasure gardens at Theobalds
- Gardening for ladies
- General Remarks. Situation for a flower garden
- On improving the soil
- Aspect and choice of flowers
- Monthly roses
- Rustic stages
- Garden tools and working dress
- India rubber shoes indispensable
- Laying Out. Arrangement of plants
- Root houses
- Annuals
- Biennials
- Perennials
- Planting out of beds
- Amelioration of soils
- Monthly lists of flowers
- Desturctive habits of Hares and Rabbits
- Snails, earthwigs, mildew and blight
- Neatness and order indispensable in a well kept garden
- Spring plants
- List of Perrenials
- Bulbs and Perennials. Transplanting bulbs
- Advantage of salt manures
- Best arrangement for choice bulbs
- Select lists
- Fibrous rooted flowers
- Their propagation
- Protection necessary
- Annuals. Sowing and gathering seed
- Training and trimming plants
- List of annuals
- Roses and Jasmines. Poetry of flowers
- Varieties of roses
- Pyramids
- Climbing varieties
- Insects injurious to the rose
- List of roses
- Luxuriant appearance of Jasmine
- Devices for displaying its beauty
- Shrubs and Evergreens. On planting
- Distance between each
- Various modes of propagating
- List of best garden Sorts
- Pruning
- On House and window gardening. Plants proper for window culture
- Treatment of house plants
- Mode of supply
- Bulbs in glasses
- Nosegays and cut flowers
- Diseases of plants
- Domestic greenhouses. Forms of apparatus
- Preparing the soil
- Draining
- Principles of the invention
- Situation of plants
- Monthly notices. Recapitulation of work to be done each month.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- OCLC:
- 773389
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