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Title: The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden
Identifier: centurybookofgar00cook (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, E. T. (Ernest Thomas), 1867-1915, ed
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London, The Offices of "Country life" (etc. )
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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584 THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. in detail in previous chapters. One can make a selection of noble kinds for permanent effect, for when once planted in deep, rich soil, and given an annual mulching, they will remain in health without further trouble for some years. They may be under-planted with spring bulbs, and thus the borders and beds will, with little labour, produce flowers for many months. In planting ever bear in mind that Nature groups her flowers, and does not produce them in lines. Hardy flowers should be massed rather than planted singly, and this applies to the shrubbery as well, where groups of the same kinds of flowering shrubs are far more effective than when dotted about in hap- hazard fashion. If the garden is of the usual rectangular form, and there is space for the growth of vegetables, keep these towards the lower end, and bush or other fruits can be planted near the walks. In small gardens it will be advis- able to restrict fruit trees to those of the bush form chiefly upon the English Paradise stock. Merely a general outline is given of how to commence gardening, as details have been given in previous chapters, which deal with individual subjects.
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THE COLUMBINE (Aquilegia cccrnha). A TOWN GARDEN. By E. H. WOODALL. F^EW things are more depressing to the average man than the dismal aspect of j a neglected back garden in a town of considerable size. Such a plot came under my notice not long ago, and, under judicious management and careful arrangement, it has in a very short time proved such a pleasure that 1 think some details may be of use to those who find themselves possessors of such a potential " Eden." As is usually the case in all ordinary town gardens, the area is about three times as long as it is wide— in this case containing quite a third of an acre—surrounded by sooty brick walls devoid of any climber whatever. The ground is quite flat, and the soil strong clay, which, however, had once been well worked. On the ground stand two dilapidated and dark old glasshouses—

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