Identifier: gardenillustrate91876lond (find matches)
Title: The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches
Year: 1871 (1870s)
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Subjects: Gardening Horticulture
Publisher: London : (s.n.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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two of these can bestuck iu the ground so as to completely protect the delicate plant,and yet not deprive it of air. Six-inch boards of lialf-iucbstuff nailed together, to form a V-shapcd trough, arc veryuseful iu the garden ; they are handy to place over smallplants during cold nights, and may bo turned over and set to makea screen against strong winds, or used for shading plants in rows.Seedlings often suffer from the heat of the sun in the middle ofthe day ; the seedUngs of even the hardiest forest trees are verydelicate when young. The seeds of such trees when sown naturallyalmost always fall where the young plant will be shaded, and thoamateur who experiments in this very interesting branch of horti.culture, tho raising of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubsfrom seed, will find it necessary to imitate Nature and protect hisyoung seedlings from the intense heat of the sun. There are several Supplement to The Cardeti, Office 37, Southampton Street, Covent Rarden, London, W.C.
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to irlii^ GREAT SX BRUNOS LILY. ANTHERIC DM LILIASTRUM VAR. JAif. 1, 1876.) THE GAKDEN. 13 ways of doing this ; if the aeeda have been sown in an open border,let him take twigs aboat a foot long, evergreen it they can be had,but, it not, those from any deciduons tree, and stick them a fewinches apart all over the bed. This will give the seedlings very muchsuch a protecliou as they would naturally have had in the shade ofother plants, and though evergreens will look better for a while, thedead leaves of deciduous twigs will give quite as useful a shade. Itis always safer to grow seeds in a frame, as the young plants arethen under more complete control. Frames are easily shaded bymeans of a lattice made of common laths. Strips of inch stuff, 1^or 2 inches wide, are used for the sides of the lattice, and laths arenailed across as far apart as their own width. One lath being nailedon, another is laid on to mark the distance, the third one put downand nailed, and the second one is moved al

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