The Botanist's and Gardener's New Dictionary: Containing the Names, Classes, Orders, Generic Characters, and Specific Distinctions of the Several Plants Cultivated in England, According to ... Linnaeus ... In which is Also Comprised, a Gardener's Calendar ... and to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Linnaean System of Botany ... |
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alfo alſo annual plant autumn bafe belonging biennial plant branches calyx capfule cells Characters clafs of plants claſs clean from weeds clofe cloſe compofed compreffed comprehending fuch plants corolla confifts Culture diftance divided into five dung erect fame feafon feedling feeds are numerous fegments feven feveral fhaded fhady fhaped fhoots fhort fhould be fown fhrubby fide fingle firft fpecies fituation five fegments fixth flowers fmall fmooth foil fome foon foot-ftalks forts four fpear fpear-shaped fpecies grows naturally fpring freſh froft fruit ftalk ftamina ftand ftyle fummer gardens genus genus of plants germen ground hairy hermaphrodite hot-bed inches indented involucrum leaf light earth monogynia muft muſt native obferving oblong obtufe oval perennial plants perianthium pericarpium petals placed pots preferved propagated by feeds raiſed roundish ſmall Species ſtalk thefe theſe thofe thoſe tranfplanted trees triandria umbel uſed winter woolly leaves
Popular passages
Page 254 - ... cut about half an inch below the eye, and with your knife flit off the bud, with part of the wood to it, in form of an efcutcheon.
Page 204 - ... taken up with as much as poflible of their own earth about them, and planted feverally in the middle of thefe pots ; when they are to be fet in a fliady place, and watered at times till they have taken root.
Page 204 - ... them from the fun, and giving them frequent, but gentle waterings, till they are well rooted. The mats with which thefe beds are covered are to be taken off in gentle mowers, and always in the hot weather at nights, that the plants may have the benefit of the dew. They ihould remain about two mouths in this bed, by which time they will have taken root.
Page 400 - That the sap does not descend between the bark and the wood, as the favourers of a circulation suppose, seems evident from hence; viz, that if the bark be taken off for three or four inches breadth quite round, the bleeding of the tree above that bared place will much abate, which ought to have the contrary effect, by intercepting the course of the refluent sap, if the sap descended by the bark. But the reason of the abatement of the bleeding in this case may well be accounted for, from the manifest...
Page 160 - Piquettes ; thefe flowers have always a white ground, and are (potted with fcarlet, red, purple, or other colours. The fourth are called Painted Ladies ; thefe have their petals of a red or purple colour on the upper fide, and are white underneath.
Page 216 - ... applied ; and, though it be not above a quarter of an inch thick, it will keep out the air more effectually than the clay ; and, as cold will harden this, there 'is no danger of its being hurt by froft, which is very apt to caule the clay to cleave, and...
Page 143 - ... diftance from one another, or thereabouts. As foon as the Digger or Spitter has gone once the Breadth of the Ridge, he begins again at the other Side, and digging as before, covers the Roots laft fet, and makes the fame Room for the Setters to place a new Row, at the fame Diftance from the firft, that they are from one another. Thus they go on till a whole Ridge, containing commonly one Rod, is planted, and the only Nicety in digging is to leave fome Part of the firft Stratum of Earth untouched...
Page 214 - ... joint of the former year's wood be cut off with the cion, it will preferve it the better, and when they are grafted this may be cut off; for...
Page 379 - QUINCUNX order, in gardening, a plantation of trees, disposed originally in a square, and consisting of five trees, one at each corner, and a fifth in the middle : or a quincunx is the figure of a plantation of trees, disposed...
Page 240 - In the garden, dig out a trench of a length and width proportionable to the frames you intend it for; and if the ground be dry, about a foot or a foot and a half deep ; but if it be wet, not above fix inches : then wheel the dung into the opening-, obferving to ftir every part of it with a fork, and...