The gardeners kalendar. Directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as in the conservatory and nursery ... / by Philip Miller.

  • Philip Miller
Date:
1751
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Credit: The gardeners kalendar. Directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as in the conservatory and nursery ... / by Philip Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if bad weather fhould fet in foon after, and no fun appear, as is often the cafe at this fea- fon with hard froft, when there may be a necefiity to keep the houfe clofely fhut up for feveral days ^ fo that the moifture of the earth in the tubs and pots will greatly add to the damp of the air. The hardy fucculent plants mull: have as much air as poffible in mild weather; for if they are too clofely fhut up, they often call their leaves, and appear unfightly, efpecially the Sedums, Cotyledons, Senecio’s, and the Ficoides’s, which, when drawn too much, will not appear handfome, nor pro¬ duce near fo many flowers, as thofe which are kept more airy. ' Your Anana's, or . Pine-apples, which begin now to fhew their heads for Fruit, muH be carefully looked after, obferving to refrelh them frequently with water, for want of which they are often llarv’d, and the fruit is rendered fmall: but this water ihould be placed in the Stove at leaft twelve hours before it is us'd, that it may acquire an equal warmth with the air of the houfe^ other wife it will be too cold for them. You muft alfo keep up the warmth of the houfe, and