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Title: Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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moisture. Height, 6 to 8 inches.Bloom in winter and spring. At present the baby Primrose (Primula Forbesi) is popular. Itis treated in essentially the same way as the Sinensis. The obconica(P. obconica) in several forms is a popular florists plant, but is notmuch used in window-gardens. The hairs poison the hands of somepersons. Culture practically as for P. Sinensis. All primulas are impatient of a dry atmosphere and fluctuating con-ditions. Rhododendrons are broad-leaved evergreen shrubs that are admi-rably adapted to producing strong planting effects. Some of them arehardy in the Northern states. Rhododendrons require a fibrous or peaty soil and protection frombleak winds and bright suns in summer and winter. A northern orsomewhat shady exposure, to break the force of the midday sun, is ad-visable ; but they should not be planted where large trees will sap thefertility and moisture from the ground. They protect each other ifgrown in masses, and also produce better planting effects.
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XIX. Pyracantha in fruit. One of the best ornamental-fruited plants forthe middle and milder latitudes. THE GROWING OF THE ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 391 They require a deep, fibrous earth, and it is supposed that theydo not thrive in limestone soils or where wood ashes are freely used.While rhododendrons will sometimes succeed without any special prep-aration of the ground, it is advisable to take particular pains in thisregard. It is well to dig a hole 2 or 3 feet deep, and fill it withearth compounded of leaf mold, well-rotted sod, and peat. Themoisture supply should be never failing, for they suffer from drought.They should be mulched summer and winter. Plant in spring. The hardy garden forms are derivatives of Rhododendron Cataw-biense, of the southern Appalachian Mountains. The Pontica andother forms are not hardy in the North. The great laurel of the northern United States (p. 299) is Rho-dodendron maximum. This has been extensively colonized in largegrounds by being removed from the wi

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