Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo09paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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nd with some of the specimens, boththe flowers and slioots will need thinning, to render those which are left more perfect. Oneessential point is to support, timely, all flower-stems that are inclined to be weakly. Forced plantsthat have ceased flowering should not be placed in the open air, without they are to be destroyed.A spare pit or frame should be devoted to their reception, that they may properly maturetheir slioots. Careful watering is indispensable to Camellias that are now about to bloom. Either too muchor too little fluid, or great vicissitudes of temperature, occasions them to shed their flower-budsbefore expansion. Tender annuals can be sown in pots for the greenhouse ; and those of a hardier descriptionmay likewise be sown in pots, in a cold frame, for subsequent planting in the flower-borders. Bythe ordinary practice, there is a great display of annuals in the middle of the summer, but at noother period. Sowings made now and in May would ensure a more permanent efiect.
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