Your Plants

Plain and Practical Directions
For the treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants
In the House and Garden

In the winter of the year 1880, while the author was in attendance upon a large horticultural meeting in a neighboring city, which was attended by nearly all the leading florists and nurserymen in Western New York, the idea of writing this work was first suggested to him.

An intelligent lady, present at that meeting, widely known for her skill and success as an amateur florist, in conversation with the writer made the following remarks: "I have in my library at least a dozen different works on floriculture, some of them costly, all of which I have read over and over again, often having to pore over a large volume of almost useless matter, in order to find information on some points I was looking for. Read more...

• Introduction

• How to Make a Lawn

• Soil for Potting—Artificial Fertilizers

• Selecting and Sowing Seeds

• Making and Planting Flower Beds

• Watering Plants—Is Cold Water Injurious?

• Atmosphere and Temperature

• Insects

• Wintering Plants in Cellars

• The Law of Color in Flowers

• The Relation of Plants to Health

• Layering

• Propagation of Plants from Cuttings

  • Time table, Cuttings to take Root

• Grafting

• Hanging Baskets

• Wardian Cases and Jardinieres

• Aquatics—Water Lilies

• Hardy Climbing Vines

• Annual Flowering Plants

• Pansy Culture

• Fall or Holland Bulbs

• Tropical Bulbs—Tuberoses

• Roses, Cultivation, and Propagating

• Japan and other Lilies—Calla Lilies

• Geraniums, the Best Twelve Sorts

• Azaleas; How to Cultivate Them

• Camellias—Orange and Lemon Trees

• Fuchsias, Training and Management

• Night Blooming Cereus—Rex Begonias

• Rockeries—How to Make Them

• Budding

• Pruning

• Miscellaneous Notes

• Sentiment and Language of Flowers

Garden Notes

Your Plants, Plain and Practical Directions for the treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants, 1919