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they should be turned out of the old
pots, and the crocks should be carefully
removed, so as to avoid injuring the
fibres, or even shaking off the earth;
the bulbs are then to be repotted in a
larger-sized pot, in peat and sand, with
good drainage.
Raising Varieties.—Mr. Groom observes,
that "in hybridizing, care should
be always taken to save seed from those
flowers which have the best shape; for
I believe the form of the future flower
is much more dependent on the kind
from which the seed is saved than upon
that which furnishes the pollen; the
pollen generally gives the colour. It is
also highly desirable that the flower
undisturbed, for the purpose of lifting,
for forcing during the winter months.
Forcing. — Pot them in thirty-tvvosized
pots, filled to within three and a
half inches of the rim with rich loam,
upon which the roots are closely placed,
and then covered about two inches in
thickness with equal parts of leaf mould
and sand ; they are then well watered,
so as to settle the mould about the roots ;
place them on a shelf near the glass, in
a moist stove, or forcing-house, the
temperature of which may range from
65° to 75^, and take care that the soil
does not become dry. When they are
so far advanced that the plants show
their heads of flowers, remove them into
a warm green-house, still placing them
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from which the pollen is taken should
be darker than that producing the seed near the glass, until as they advance in
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for I have found in such cases the seed- growth they are withdrawn by degrees
linn-s have been much more beautiful into a shaded part of the house, from
(being frequently spotted or stripedj, whence they are removed to the drawthan
where I have reversed the process. ing room as required, their places to be
I have seen this occur in so marked a immediately filled with others, which
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manner in the ranunculus, that I have are similarly treated, and thus an ample
adopted it as a principle, never to take succession will be kept up. Care and
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pollen from a lighter coloured flower.' attention are requisite in lifting and
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selecting the plants for forcing; they
require a minute examination to dis-
LILY. Lilium.
tinguish those that will flower from
LILY-HYACINTH. Scilla Lilia-
those that will not, the only diff"erence
hyacinthus.
being that the buds of the former are
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY. Conval- more round and short than those of the
laria majalis.
Soil and 'Situation.—Clayey loam,
near water, and where the noonday sun
IS intercepted by shade, suits it best.
Propagation.—Mr. D. Watts communicated
a paper to the Regent's Park
Gardeners' Society, in 1845, from which
the following are extracts:— "Before
planting, dig over and well break the
latter." Florisfs Journ.
LILY-PINK. Aphyllanthes.
LILY-THORN. Catesbea.
LIME. Citras limonum.
LIME is valuable as a manure, for
some one or more of its salts enter into
the composition of every vegetable.
But it is not the lime of every district
that is suitable for the purpose. Some
ground about nine inches deep, then specimens contain a very large pro-
plant the roots about four inches apart, portion of magnesia, which, absorbing
all over the surface of the ground, giving
them a gentle press down with the
thumb and finger, and then cover them
about four inches thick with the same
sort of soil. On forming new plantations
of this plant, I select all the flowering
buds from my stock of roots, which I
carbonic acid very slowly, remains in a
caustic state, to the injury of the roots
of the plants, and the diminution of
benefit from the carbonic acid evolved
by the decomposing constituents of the
soil. Neither can the gardener apply
it to all his soils with advantage. Thus,
plant by themselves, but in the same
way as I do the others. If equal quantities
of each can be had, there will be
peat and bog earth are beneficial to the
plants grown upon them by their containing
gallic and other acida which lime
equal
three
quantities of flowers for two or
successive seasons, after which
removes.
To garden soil of the usual staple
they should be all taken up, the roots about fifty bushels of lime per acre is a
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divided, and replanted in the same way. I sufficient quantity. If the soil be clayey
At the time of replanting, it will be the quantity may be doubled. A very
excellent manure is formed by mixing
requisite to leave a sufficient quantity |
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