Choice stove and greenhouse flowering plants, comprising descriptions of upwards of thirteen hundred species and varieties, ..

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Preface To Third Edition

Ir is highly gratifying to us to find that the Second Edition of this work has had such a rapid sale, and has been circulated widely both on the Continent and in the Colonies, independent of the home demand; facts which show the opinions of Cultivators, Amateurs, and

Gardeners respecting the utility of it.

In preparing the Third Edition, it has been our aim to make it as complete as possible, by increasing the number of woodcuts, and adding all the most meritorious new species and varieties of Stove and Greenhouse Flowering Plants up to the present time; we have also added some cuts of Greenhouses, &c., from which our readers will be able to gain ideas as to the arrangement of their plants, and the forms in which they should be trained for exhibition or decorative purposes; these additions have greatly increased the size and cost of production of the work, and we have been reluctantly compelled to raise the price to 7/6, which we feel certain our readers will not object to.

We have endeavoured to render the instructions herein vi PREFACE.

given as plain and practical as possible, so that any one perusing its pages and acting judiciously may be successful in the cultivation of their plants.

In conclusion, we have to record our thanks to the Editors of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, Mr. William Bull, and other kind friends, for the loan of some of the illustrations contained in this edition.

B. & WILLIAMS.

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STOVE PLANTS.

A SELECTION oF STOVE FLOWERING PLANTS . _ . o . 84 BROMELIACEOUS PLANTS. ‘ ? . . “ ‘ i. 2 #1 CISTERNS , é . ‘ . . $ : $ 2 . sa Guazine ‘ . : . ; i ‘ ‘ ‘ . » i HEATING . : . a . i i , . 4 se 8 HYBRIDISING AND CROS8- BREEDING . p . f ‘ j » 29 Insrcts . ' . : ’ < r . . . ‘ » « 20 INTRODUCTION. % ‘ ‘ ¥ ‘ ‘ : ‘ . ‘ 1 Puant STOVEs . i . ‘ ‘ 5 . ‘ edie 5 Porrine 5 ; ; ‘ . 4 . , 5 . é . 16 PROPAGATION . . A é ‘ fl . . oe 24 REMARKS UPON FERTILISATION ‘ i ‘ a ‘ é i . 81 Resting anp Drying OFF . ‘ ‘ a ;: i F «as 2 SHADING F . : ‘ ‘ e ‘ ‘ Fi ‘ ‘ » 22 Soin ‘ A ‘ ‘ ¥ r ‘ ¥ . 7 r .. 14 . STOVE Aguartos ‘ ‘ é ‘ , * 4 F P ‘ » Aa TRELLISES AND TRAINING . i a a ‘ i ‘ ia 2 VENTILATION % 7 . 7 A é ; 5 ‘ ‘ » dt WATERING r - A 5 a 7 ‘: ‘ . ® x « 18 GREENHOUSE PLANTS.