Beeton's gardening book : containing full and practical instructions concerning general garden operations, the flower garden, the fruit garden, the kitchen garden, pests of the month, with a monthly calendar of work to be done in the garden throughout the year.

  • Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831-1877
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Credit: Beeton's gardening book : containing full and practical instructions concerning general garden operations, the flower garden, the fruit garden, the kitchen garden, pests of the month, with a monthly calendar of work to be done in the garden throughout the year. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and brilliancy of their blossoms, continuing in beauty during tbe summer and autumn: they thrive in any light rich soil. Gaillardia alba marginata,—white-edged, half-hardy annual, 1.1 ft. Gaillardia grandiflora hybrida, — rich crimson and yellow, flowers remark- ably largo and attractive, half-hardy annual, 1£ ft. Gaillardia grandiflora hybrida, — half- hardy annual, 1J ft. 13S.—HELIOTRO'PIULE (nat. ord. Boragina'cese). Half-hardy Perennials. Profuse-flowering and deliciously fragant plants, valuable for bedding, ribboning, rustic baskets, and pot-culture; seeds sown in spring make fine plants for summer and autumn decoration; succeed in light rich soil. The best plants are obtained from cuttings in the same way as verbonas and bed- ding calceolarias. All the heliotropes are very sensitive of frost. 139,-MESEMBRYAN'THEMUM (nat. ord. Mesembrya'oese). Half-hardy Annuals. A brilliant and profuse-flowering tribe of extremely pretty dwarf-growing plants, from the Cape of Good Hope, strikingly effective in beds, edgings, rock-work, rustic baskets, or vases in warm sunny situations; also for in-door decoration, grown in pots, pans, or boxes. 140.—IiAHTA'NA (nat. ord. Verbena'cese). Half-hardy Perennials. A genus of dwarf bushy shrubs, from 12 in. to 18 in. in height, thickly studded with pretty miniature verbena-like blossoms of varied colours and changing hues,—from snow-white with primrose centres to delicate pink and rose with white discs, and from bright rose-lilac to orange and scarlet with creamy centres. For the conservatory and flower-garden they are alike valuable. Seeds sown in March make fine summer and autumn blooming plants. They succeed best in dry, warm situations, and in light rich soil. 141.—LARKSPUR (Delphi'num, nat. ord. Ranuncula'cese). Hardy Annuals. For the guidance of amateurs, we may simply notice, that the stock-flowered Larkspur is of the same habit as the old Dwarf Rocket, but has longer spikes and much larger and more double flowers. The tall stock-flowered variety is of the same style as the branching, but with more compact spikes and larger and more double flowers. The tall-growing varieties scattered in shrubbery borders produce a charming effect when backed by the green foliago of tbo shrubs. 142.—LAVATE'RA (nat. ord. Malva'cese). Very profuse-blooming showy plants, which are exceedingly attractive as *