Catalogue Of Select Annual Biennial And Perennial Flower Seeds Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Catalogue of Select Annual, Biennial, and Perennial Flower Seeds Practicable labor, when directed only to the department of the flower garden. On the contrary, those whose location is on still, clayey soil, may correct it by the free use of sand of any description; pure river sand for in stance, is quite suitable, the immediate Object not being to enrich, but to render less adhesive; the sand should be thoroughly incorporated with the natural soil, as deeply as may well be done with the spade, and if the texture be a stiff clay, it may be necessary to trench-dig, so as to get a still deeper soil of the proper kind. In deed, in some cases it may be found necessary to under drain, which is done in a variety of modes; the most simple of which is by digging trenches a few inches in width, and so deep as not to be disturbed by the culture of the crops, which trenches, after being partially filled up with pieces of bricks, shells, coarse gravel, or similar substances, are entirely closed with soil; these drains, however, are of but partial use, unless they have a rea sonable descent, and discharge beyond the boundaries of the garden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.