The florist's manual, or, hints for the construction of a gay flower-garden ; with directions for preventing the depredations of insects / By the authoress of Botanical dialogues, and sketches of the physiology of vegetable life [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson].

  • Henry, Mary Jackson.
Date:
1822
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Credit: The florist's manual, or, hints for the construction of a gay flower-garden ; with directions for preventing the depredations of insects / By the authoress of Botanical dialogues, and sketches of the physiology of vegetable life [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which, numbers, I believe, are an- nually destroyed. Notwithstanding, however, the expediency of attention to the state of growth in a bulb at the time of removal, it is certain that with the particular care detailed in these of * pages, it may so far safely be trans- planted in full vigour both of flower and foliage, as not materially to in- jure the health of the bulb, although not without considerable hazard of so much impairing its strength, as to prevent the product of a handsome flower the ensuing year. The process of the annual renewal of the bulb in tulip has been long un- derstood,—even in the time of some of our oldest botanists; and indeed the marks of such a process are so