This section is from the book "The Gardener V1", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
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Statice Rattrayana is synonymous with S. profusa: it was raised at Salton Hall, near Haddington, and is the finest and most useful of all the greenhouse or stove Statices. It is a hybrid between Statice Holfordii and Statice Puberula.
Unheated glass walls may suit your purpose. But we recommend all such structures to have means of protecting against late spring frosts in such a locality as yours, for the crops are sometimes destroyed in unheated ones.
Your Celosias are affected with an insect - a small spider: syringe regularly with water in which about the size of an egg of soft-soap is dissolved in 4 gallons.
 
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