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Cassell's Popular Gardening. E-book. Formato PDF David Taylor Fish - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The rapid rise and progress of commercial horticulture, the demand for Open spaces, the multiplication and improvement of public pal ks, the enormous imports of foreign fruit and vegetables, the marvellous increase in the home culture of ?owers, fruit, and seeds g — all these things point to an unlimited extension of garden pursuits in the near future. When the imperial importance of horticulture as a powerful factor in augmenting the food supplies, promoting the comfort, elevating the character, and improving the sani tary state of the nation, becomes better known and more generally appreciated, few will rest content until they possess a garden of some sort. And few need any longer stand aside from the pursuit of horticulture, as too difficult or too costly for them. Thoroughly understood and properly practised, it is neither one nor the other; while no pursuit yields quicker returns, cv' richer revenues of pleasure, profit, and relaxation for the money and time invested in it. While aiming, therefore, to make this work a safe and sufficient guide for the most experienced, it is hoped to avoid a glaring fault of many current treatises on gardening, viz., an assumption of the possession of too much knowledge on the part of their readers. Beginning at the very beginning of our subject, as regards the earth, and those plants which clothe it with plenty and adorn it with beauty, it will be our aim to teach, by a series of easy articles or lessons, how the former may be ameliorated and enriched.
Cassell's Popular Gardening. E-book. Formato PDF David Taylor Fish - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
A perfect rockery, be it large or small, should more resemble the sides than the ?oor of a quarry, exhausted or otherwise. The rocks should rise boldly — project here, recede there, and in places boldly assert themselves. For though the chief use of artificial rockeries is to afford picturesque-growing sites for beautiful plants and ?owers, yet the rocky character of the base should be more prominently apparent here and there. The attempt to utilise each foot or yard of space, and to cover the whole of the rocks with ?owers or foliage, is as great a mistake as the opposite one of having ten times more rock than vegetable covering. Regularity of form and of clothing is the ruin of the majority of artificial rockeries. Nature, by her various tiltings, upheavals, and depressions, varies to infinity the rocky foundations of the earth. And one of the chief charms of artificial rockeries con sists in choosing for our imitation specimens of her most erratic performances. And yet where any particular strata is chosen for imitation, in most cases sufficient variety may be obtained in the dips or tiltings of that particular formation, with out travelling far beyond it. But of course this is more applicable to rockeries of great extent, and such as are seldom attempted in this country.