The Flower Garden
by Ida D. Bennett
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bennett, Ida D. (Ida Dandridge), 1860-1925
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SB: Agriculture: Plant culture
- Subject
- Floriculture
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54606
- Release Date
- April 25, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE FLOWER GARDEN
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.PLATES
- 4.Chapter ONE The Location and Arrangement of the Garden — For Laying Out the Beds — For a Twelve-foot Foliage-bed — Another Twelve-foot Bed — Nine-foot Bed — Nine-foot Bed — Twelve-foot Bed — Nine-foot Bed of Ornamental Grasses — Eight-foot Bed
- 5.Chapter TWO Soils
- 6.Chapter THREE Fertilisers
- 7.Chapter FOUR The Hotbed, Cold-Frame and Sand-box
- 8.Chapter FIVE Purchasing of Seeds
- 9.Chapter SIX Starting Seeds in Flats
- 10.Chapter SEVEN Transplanting and Repotting
- 11.Chapter EIGHT House-plants From Seeds — Gloxinias — Heliotropes — Lantanas — Petunias — Primroses
- 12.Chapter NINE Outside Window-boxes
- 13.Chapter TEN Various Annuals from Seed — The Pansy Bed — Phlox Drummondi — Salvias (Flowering Sage) — Sweet-peas — Verbenas
- 14.Chapter ELEVEN Vines — Adlumia (Mountain Fringe, Climbing Fumitory, Alleghany Vine) — Clematis (Virgin’s Bower) — Bignonia Radicans (Trumpet Vine)
- 15.Chapter TWELVE Ornamental Foliage Plants from Seed — Canna (Indian Shot) — Ricinus, or Castor-oil Bean
- 16.Chapter THIRTEEN Bulbous and Tuberous-rooted Plants — Crinums and Amaryllis
- 17.Chapter FOURTEEN Aquatics
- 18.Chapter FIFTEEN The Care of the Summer Rose-bed
- 19.Chapter SIXTEEN The Hardy Lily-bed
- 20.Chapter SEVENTEEN Care of Cannas, Caladiums, Dahlias, and Other Bulbs during Winter — Fall Bulbs, Tulips, Hyacinths, Crocus, Scillas, and the Like
- 21.Chapter EIGHTEEN Hardy Shrubs and Plants for Fall Planting
- 22.Chapter NINETEEN Winter protection
- 23.Chapter TWENTY Care of House-plants In Winter
- 24.Chapter TWENTY-ONE Common and English Names of Flowers — Time For Germination of Seeds
- 25.Chapter TWENTY-TWO Blooming Season of Various Trees, Shrubs, and Plants
- 26.Chapter TWENTY-THREE A Chapter of Odds and Ends
- 27.Chapter TWENTY-FOUR A Chapter of Don’ts
- 28.Alphabetical Index
- 29.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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