The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life RationallyLoudon, Mrs. (Jane)
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The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
Loudon, Mrs. (Jane)
Cooking; Country life; Home economics
should be repotted in fresh soil, an inch or more in the bottom of the
pot being filled in with small pieces of broken crocks.
In February or March greenhouse plants should be looked over, and
repotted where necessary; those that are too tall should be cut in, and
cuttings made of their shoots. The young plants raised from cuttings
made in autumn should be repotted in larger pots for flowering; and
where the plants do not require fresh potting, but have the surface of
their mould become green and mossy, the moss should be taken off, and
the ground slightly stirred with a flat stick, taking care, however,
not to go so deep as to injure the roots. When trouble is not an
object, all greenhouse plants are the better for repotting once a year,
either in spring or autumn; and when the ball is taken out of the pot
for this purpose, it should be carefully examined, and all the decayed
parts of the roots should be cut off. Sometimes, when the ball of earth
is turned out, nearly half of it will fall off almost without touching
it; and when this is the case, it will generally be found that there
is a worm in the pot. Worms do a great deal of mischief to greenhouse
plants in cutting through the roots, as their instinct teaches them
to make their way through the earth straight across the pot and back
again, and they cannot do this without tearing the roots asunder every
time they pass.
Another point to be attended to in the management of a greenhouse is,
keeping the plants as near as possible to the glass, as, unless this be
done, the plants will become what gardeners call "drawn up," that is,
they will be unnaturally tall and slender, from the efforts they make
to reach the light.
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