Identifier: gardenersmonthly19phil (find matches)
Title: The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Charles H. Marot
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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U^W BEGONIA REX. given of plants for window culture, leaf plantsmerely are seldom seen therein. Palms and ferns deserve recognition as particularly use-ful for room work, as they will thrive in less of the old Rex type as in the above illustra-tion, and no matter how they may be massed orarranged,they will not look well unless some veryartificial pieces of furniture are arranged or 72 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY (March, grouped around them. But if a few palms orferns be introduced into the company, the re-sult is very different, as the beauty of the Be-gonias is heightened, and the foliage plants are from Mr. William Bulls excellent catalogue, andwhich will make our meaning plain. There was a time when these plants wereveryexpensive, especially to Americans, and few
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AND HORTICULTURIST. 73 Such, of South Amboy, particularly, many kindshave been brought within the reach of almost all. Setting mere taste aside for the present, how-ever, and returning to practical matters of de-tail, we may note the following as among someof the most pressing duties of the season amongflowers. Geraniums, Pelargoniums, Cinerarias and Chi-nese Primroses must be kept as near the glass andlight as possible; they do little good in shadyplaces. Keep off the green Aphis—for this ona small scale there is nothing like hot water; ona large scale, tobacco smoke in severa

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