This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Composts, prepare. - Dress borders by forking, so soon as fruit is gathered. - Gathering of Apples and Pears to store commence, e. - Grapes, bag, to protect from wasps, etc. - Layers and cuttings may still be inserted. - Leaves, be careful not to injure or remove from Wall Trees. - Nets, spread over fruit trees, to protect from birds. - Plantations, intended, prepare ground for, by trenching, etc. - Planting may be commenced, e., in some kinds of Apricots, Peaches, etc. - Strawberries, plant in moist weather; clean old beds; pot for forcing. - Stones of fruit save, to sow for stocks. - Vines, remove straggling useless shoots. - Wall-trees, generally, look over and train as required. - Wasps, entrap in bottles, etc.
Air, admit freely every day. - Bark-beds, renew. - Bulbs, plant, b. - Composts, prepare. - Dress the plants regularly. - Earth, give where required. - Leaves, wash; remove decayed, etc. - Pines, shirt, if neglected before., b.; attend to bottom heat; water every third day. - Propagate by offsets, seeds, slips, and suckers. - Shifting neglected before, complete, b. - Succulents, replace under glass. - Watering generally is required two or three times weekly.
Air, give very freely to plants returned into house. - Camellias, bud. - Earth, give fresh. - Geraniums and Myrtles planted in borders, return into pots, b.; cuttings, plant, b. - Glass, Flues, etc., repair, before the plants are moved in. - Oranges and Lemons, remove into house, e.; thin fruit. - Prune and dress as the plants are removed. - Roses, pot for forcing. - Seedlings and other young plants, if well rooted, transplant, b. - Succulents, remove into house, b.; shift into larger pots. - Suckers, layers, cuttings, etc, may be planted. - Tender plants, generally remove into house, e. - Water is not required so freely.
Three species. Stove orchids. Division. Light sandy soil.
Seringia platyphylla. 'Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Cuttings. - Sand, loam, and peat.
Serissa foeida. Green-house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam, peat, and sand.
Serpicula repens. Greenhouse herbaceous creeper. Division. Common soil.
Saw-wort. Twenty-nine species. Hardy herbaceous perennials, annuals, and biennials. The former, seeds or division; the latter, seeds only. Common soil suits them all.
Thirty-four species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings, taken off at a joint. Light turfy loam, with a little sand.
Sersalisia sericea. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam, peat, and sand.
Twelve species. Stove annuals, biennials, or evergreen shrubs. The latter increase by cuttings; the former by seeds. Loam and peat suits them all.
Four species. Stove annuals and herbaceous perennials. Partly dried cuttings. Sandy loam and Peat.
Sethia indica. Stove evergreen tree. Cuttings. Turfy loam and peat.
 
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