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BANCROFT & CO. 1860, Se 10 Gua Severs Baye.” pO 5 Ue Ba . cana ror se er = oid Bi ener : donde) ie Lael ik rae ee Baer tian ane: aeeltand sdaiabcly Sere co ab o i fo: ‘tare tar peice oh. we, ships ips Sint an os ae tro eqerobe ES taba sisiorsee pidth extn tend te swe ron a apr ol : +4 ania Se wth baa dosage eee ta Sooner ae tad. ceionareny oR eam: wegen — sri. sila Myer: soins ee tet 4 be a) } i’, ee th ee py \ LY. ee ANS Se pe | UPIBOWER\ GARDENER ~ { wave been induced to compile this little work from hearing many of my companions regret that no single book contained a sufficiently condensed ang general account of the business of a Flower Garden. “ We require,” they said, “a work in a small compass, which will enable us to become our own gardener; we wish to know how to set about everything owrse/ves, without expense, without being deluged with Latin words and technical terms, and without being obliged to pick our way through multiplied publications, re- dolent of descriptions, and not always particularly lucid. We require a practical work, telling us of useful flowers, simple modes of rearing them, simply expressed, and free from lists of plants and roots which require ex- pensive methods of preservation. Some of us have gardens, but we cannot afford a gardener; we like flowers, but we cannot attempt to take more than common pains to raise them. We require to know the hardiest flowers, and to comprehend the general business of the garden, undisturbed by fear of failure, and at the most economical scale of expense. Who will write us such a book ?”? vi PREFACE. I have endeavored to meet their views; and my plan of Floriculture may be carried into effect by any lady who can command the services of an old man, a woman, or a stout boy. In the present Edition, the publishers have added a paper on Winpow GarpDeENING, written by Mr. M’Intosh—and another on Domestic GREENHOUSES, an apparatus by which a small collec- tion of exotics may be given in great perfection, and by a process which any lady may superintend with much gratification. In every other respect the work is the result of my own experience, and I dedicate it to all of wy own sex who delight in flowers, and yet cannot allow themselves te enter isto great expense in their cultivation. LOUISA IOHNSUN. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I, INTRODUCTION. Pleasures of Gardening—How conducive to health—EKarly taste for Gardening in England—Pleasure-gardens at [Theobaids—Garden- Ral aN ANT ck OS ac a. 5 aa pice so tb o.guale Ww a.ehd arardein sia apace’ CHAPTER II. GENERAI REMARKS. Situation for a Flower-garden—On improving the Soil—Aspect and choice of Flowers— Monthly Roses—Rustic Stages—Garden Tools and Working Dress—India-rubber Shoes indispensable .......... CHAPTER III. LAYING OUT. Arrangement of Plants—Root-houses—A nnuals—Biennials—Perennials —Planting out Beds—Amelioration of Soils—Monthly Lists of Flowers—Destructive habits of Hares and Rabbits—Snails, Ear- wigs, Mildew and Blight—Neatness and order indispensable ina well-kept Garden—Spring Plants—List of Perennials..... paahine ‘4 . CHAPTER IV. BULBS AND PERENNIALS. lransplanting Bulbs—Advantage of Salt Manures—Best arrangement for choice Bulbs—Select Lists—Fibrous-rooted Flowers-—Biennials —Their Propagation—Protection necessary....sseesseeee eee CHAPTER V ANNUALS, Sowing and gathering Seed—Training and trimming Plants—List of MPMNMNELNU RL ee asi nia sh 10G. 8 ae Ininl'e/ ciate erases ulm 9) ba S winis: ines sia o"ave) # vig erate wiaralnte 1a 18 36 54 vill CONTENTS. CHAPTER VI. ROSES AND JASMINES. Poetry of Flowers--Varieties of Roses—Pyramids—Climbing Varieties Insects injurious to the Rose—List of Roses—Luxuriant appearance of the Jasmine—Devices for displaying its beauty ..+-..eeseeees CHAPTER VII. SHRUBS AND EVERGREENS. On Planting—Distance between each—Various modes of Propagating— List of best Garden Sorts—Pruning......sceceecccscessccceces CHAPTER VIII. ON HOUSE AND WINDOW GARDENING. Plants proper for Window Culture—Treatment of House Plants—Mode of Supply—Bulbs in Glasses—Nosegays and cut Flowers—Diseases of Plants...cccsssesccccecces aid aleidinnspuia sin ialetl so mayan neg Gye tages CHAPTER IX. DOMESTIC GREENHOUSES. form of Apparatus—Preparing the Soil—Draining—Principles c¢ the Invention—Situation of Plants eeeeceeereereseone eeeeeo eeeestceee CHAPTER X. MONTHLY NOTICES. 63 69 76 Recapitulation of Work to be done in each Month ..-ceeceree cee + 102 ) LADIES #LOWER GARDENEK. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. =a) has been well remarked that a garden affords the purest of human pleasures. The study of Nature is interesting in all €) her manifold combinations: in her wildest attitudes, and in her artful graces. The mind is amused, charmed, and astonished in turn, with contemplating her inexhaustible display; and we wor- ship the God who created such pure and simple blessings for his - creatures. These blessings are open to all degrees and conditious of men. Nature is not a boon bestowed upon the high-born, or purchased by the wealthy at a kingly price. The poor, the blind, the halt, and the diseased, enjoy her beauty, and derive benert from her study. Every cottager enjoys the little garden which furnishes his table with comforts, and his mind with orateful feel- ings, if that mind is susceptible of religious impressions. He contemplates the gracious Providence which has bestowed such means of enjoyment upon him, as the Father whose all-seeing eye provides for the lowliest of his children ; and who has placed the “ purest of human pleasures ” within the reach of all whe are not too blind to behold his mercy. With this blessed view before his mental sight, the cottager cultivates his little homestead. The flowers and fruits of the earth bud, bloom, and decay in their season; byt Nature again performs her deputed mission, and 1* 10 LADIES’ FLOWER GARDENER. spring succeeds the dreary winter with renewed beauty and two- — fold increase. Health accompanies simple and natural pleasures. The culture of the ground affords a vast and interminable field of observation, in which the mind ranges with singular pleasure, though the body travels not. It surrounds home witn an un- ceasing interest; domestic scenes become endeared to the eye and mind; worldly cares recede; and we may truly say— “ For us kind Nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower! Annual for us, the grape, the rose, renew The juice nectarious, and the balmy dew: For us, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For us, health gushes from a thousand springs.” Eth. ep. 1. ver. 129. The taste for gardening in England began to display itself in the reign of Edward IJI., in whose time the first work on the subject was composed by Walter de Henly. Flower-gardening followed slowly in its train. The learned Linacre, who died in 1524, introduced the damask rose from Italy into England. King James I. of Scotland, when a prisoner in Windsor Castle, thus describes its “most faire”? garden :— “Now was there maide fast by the towris wall, A garden faire, and in the corneris set An herbere green, with wandis eng and small Railit about, and so with treeis set Was all the place, and hawthorn hedges knet, That lyfe was now, walking, there forbye, e That might within scarce any wight espie, So thick the bowis and the leves grene Bercandit all, the alleyes all that there were; And myddis every herbere might be sene The scharpe grene swete junipere Growing so fair, with branches hére and there, That, as it seymt to a lyfe without, The bowis spred the herbere all about.” The Quair. Henry VIII. ordered the formation of his garden at Nonsuch about the year 1509, and Leland says it was a “ Nonpareil.” ud \? INTRODUCTION. ll Hentyner assures us of its perfect beauty, describing one ol its marble basins as being set round with “lilac trees, which trees bear no fruit, but only a pleasant smell.” The pleasure-gardens at Theobalds, the seat of Lord Burleigh, were unique, acc)rding to the report of Lyson. In it were nine knots exquisitely made, one of which was set forth in likeness of the king’s arms. “One might walk two myle in the walks before he came to an end.” Queen Elizabeth was extremely fond of flowers, and her taste ever influenced that of her court. Gilliflowers, carnations, tulips, Provence and musk roses, were brought to England in her reign. William III. loved a pleasaunce or pleasure-garden; but he introduced the Dutch fashion of laying them out, which is still horrible in our eyes. His Queen superintended in person all her arrangements in the flower-garden,—an amusement particularly delightful to her. In those days, “ knottes and mazes” were no longer the pride of a parterre, with a due allowance of “ pleasant and fair fishponds.” Queen Anne remodeled the gardens at Kensington, and did away with the Dutch inventions. Hampton Court was also laid out in a more perfect state in her reign, under the direction of Wise. Since that period, flower-gardening has progressed rapidly ; and the amusement of floriculture has become the dominant pas- sion of the ladies of Great Britain. It is a passion most blessed in its effects, considered as an amusement or a benefit. Nothing humanizes and adorns .the female mind more surely than a taste _ for omamental gardening. It compels the reason to act, and the judgment to observe; it is favorable to meditation of the most serious kind ; it exercises the fancy in harmless and elegant occu- pation, and braces the system by its healthful tendency. GENERAL REMARKS. >)’ the laying out of a garden, the soil and situation must be considered as much as the nature of the ground will admit. Let no lady, however, despair of being able to raise fine flow- ers upon any soil, providing the sun is not too much excluded, for the rays of the sun are the vital principle of existence to all vege- tation. The too powerful rays can be warded off by the arts of in- vention, but we have yet no substitute for that glorious orb. Unless its warm and forcing influence is allowed to extend over the surface of the garden, all flowers wither, languish, and die. Sun and air are the Jungs and heart of flowers. A lady will be rewarded for hor trouble in making her parterre in the country; but in large towns, under the influence of coal smoke, shade, and gloom, her lot will be constant disappointment. She can only hope to keep a few consumptive geraniums languishing through the summer months, to die in October, and show the desolating view of rows of pots containing blackened and dusty stems. Many soils which are harsh or arid, are susceptible of improve- ment by a little pains. Thus, a stiff élay, by digging well and leaving it to become pulverized by the action of the frost, and then mixing plenty of ashes with it, becomes a fine mould, which I have ever found most excellent for all flowers of the hardier kind. The black soil is the richest in itself, and requires no assist- ance beyond changing it about a foot in depth every three years, us a flower garden requires renewing, if a lady expects a succes- 14 LADIES’ FLOWER GARDENER. sion of handsome flowers. The ground should be well dug the latter end of September or October, or even in November, and if the soil is not sufficiently fine, let it be dug over a second or third time, and neatly raked with a very fine-toothed rake. Stony ground requires riddling well, and great care must be taken to keep it neat by picking up the little stones which con- stantly force themselves to the surface after rains. Nothing is so unbecoming as weeds and stones in parterres, where the eye seeks flowers and neatness. Almost every plant loves sand ; and if that can be procured, it enriches and nourishes the soil, especially for bulbs, pinks, carna- tions, auriculas, hyacinths, &c. Let it be mixed in the proportion of a third part to the whole. If the dead leaves are swept into a mound every autumn, and the soap suds, brine, &c., of the house be thrown upon it, the mass will quickly decompose, and become available the following year. It makes an admirable compost for auriculas, &c., mixed with garden or other mould. | If the ground be a gravelly soil, the flower-garden should not slope, for stony ground requires all the moisture you can give it, while the sloping situation would increase the heat and dryness. A moist earth, on the contrary, would be improved by being sloped towards the east or west. The south is not so proper for flowers, as a glaring sun withers the tender flowers ; but the north must be carefully avoided, and shut out by a laurel hedge, a wall, or any rural fence garnished with hardy creepers, or monthly roses, which make a gay and agreeable defense. Monthly roses are invaluable as auxiliaries of all kinds. They will grow in any soil, and bloom through the winter months, always giving a delicate fragrance, and smiling ~ even in the snow. Monthly roses will ever be the florist’s de. light: they are the hardiest, most delicate-looking, and greenest- GENERAL REMARKS. 15 leaved of garden productions ; they give no t:. uble, and speedily form a beautiful screen against any offensive object. No flower garden should exist without abundance of monthly roses, It has often been a disputed point whether flower gardens should be intersected with gravel walks or with grass_ plots. This must be left entirely to the taste and means of the party forming a garden. Lawn is as wet and melancholy in the winter months, as it is beautiful and desirable in summer ; and it requires great care and attention in mowing and rolling, and trimming round the border. Gravel walks have this advantage: the first trouble is the last. They will only require an old woman’s or a child’s assistance in keeping them free from weeds; and a lady has not the same fears of taking cold, or getting wet in her feet, during the rains of autumn and spring. Many females are unequal to the fatigue of bending down to flowers, and particularly object to the stooping posture. In this case, ingenuity alone is required to raise the flowers to a conve- nient height; and, by so doing, to increase the beauty and _pic- - turesyue appearance of the garden. Old barrels cut in half, tubs, pails, d&c., neatly painted outside, or adorned with rural orna- ments, and raised upon feet neatly carved, or mounds of earth, stand in lieu of richer materials, such as vases, parapet walls, and other expensive devices, which ornament the gardens of the wealthy. I have seen these humble materials shaped into forms as pleasing to the eye, and even more consonant to our damp climate, than marble vases. » They never look green from time, and are renewed at a very trifling expense. A few pounds of nails, and the unbarked thinnings from fir plantations, are the sole requisites towards forming any device which a tasteful fancy can dictate ; and a little green paint adds beauty and durability when the bark falls from the wood it protects. I have seen fir balls nailed on to these forns in tasteful patterns; and creepers 16 LADIES’ FLOWER GARDENER. being allowed to fall gracefully over the brims, give a remark. ably pleasing and varied appearance to the parterre. Where mould is not easily to be procured—as, for instance, in towns—the tubs or receptacles may be half filled with any kind of rubble, only space must be left to allow of two feet of fine nould at the top, which is quite sufficient for bulbous roots, reepers, &c. These receptacles have one powerful advantage ever ground plots; they can be moved under sheds, or into out- ~ houses, during the heavy rains or frosts of winter; and thereby enable a lady to preserve the more delicate flowers, which would - deteriorate by constant exposure to inclement weather. A lady requires peculiar tools for her light work. She should possess & light spade; two rakes, one with very fine teeth, and the other a size larger, for cleaning the walks when they are raked, and for raking the larger stones from the garden borders. A light garden fork is very necessary to také up bulbous or other roots with, as the spade would wound and injure them, whereas they pass safely through the interstices of the fork or prong. A watering-pot is dispensable, and a hoe. Two trowels' are like- wise necessary ; one should be a tolerable size, to transplant pe- rennial and biennial flower roots; the other should be pointed and small, to transplant the more delicate roots of anemones, bulbs, d&e. The pruning-knife must be always sharp, and, in shape, it should bend a little inwards, to facilitate cutting away straggling or dead shoots, branches, &c. The “avroncator,” lately so much i request, is an admirable instrument; but it is expensive, anu of most importance in shrubberies, where heavy branches are to be cut away. The Sieur Louis d’Auxerre, who wrote a work upon gardening in 1706, has a sketch of the avroncator of the present day, which he designates as caterpillar shears. A light pair of shears, kept always in good order, is necessar¥ GENERAL REMARRS. 17 to keep privet or laurel hedges properly clipped ; and a stout deep basket must be deposited in the tool-shed, to contain the weeds and clippings. ‘These are the only tools absolutely essen- tial to a lady’s garden. JI have seen a great variety decorating the wall of an amateur tool-house, but they must have been in- tended for show, not for use. A real artiste, In whatever pro- fession she may engage, will only encumber herself with essen- tials. All else is superfluous. I have reserved two especially necessary recommendations to the last, being comforts independent of the tool-house. Every lady should be furnished with a gardening apron, composed of stout Holland, with ample pockets to contain her pruning- knife, a small stout hammer, a ball of string, and a few nails and snippings of cloth. Have nothing to do with scissors; they are excellent in the work-room, but dangerous in a flower garden, as they wrench and wound the stems of flowers. The knife cuts slanting, which is the proper way of taking eff slips; and the knife is sufficient for all the purposes of a flower garden, even for cutting string. < The second article which [ pronounce to be indispensable is a pair of India rubber shoes, or the wooden high-heeled shoes called “sabots” by the French. In these protections, a lady may indulge her passion for flowers at all seasons, without risk of rheumatism or chills, providing it does not actually rain or snow: and the cheering influence of the fresh air, combined with a favorite amusement, must ever operate beneficially on the "wind and body in every season of the year. 18 LADIES’ FLOWER GARDENER. CHAPTER III. ON LAYING OUT. =" AA are many modes of adorning a small piece of ground, Ss so as to contain gay flowers and plants, and appear double its real size. By covering every wall or palisade with monthly roses and creepers of every kind, no space is lost, and unsightly ob- jects even contribute to the general effect of a “Plaisaunce.” The larger flowers, such as hollyhocks, sunflowers, &c., look to the best advantage as a back ground, either planted in clumps, or arranged singly. Scarlet lychnis, campanula, or any second- sized flowers, may range themselves below, and so in graduated order, till the eye reposes upon a foreground of pansies, auriculas, polyanthuses, and innumerable humbler beauties. Thus all are seen in their order, and present a mass of superb coloring to the observer, none interfering with the other. The hollyhock does not shroud the lowly pansy from displaying its bright tints of yel- low and purple; neither can the sturdy and gaudy sunflower hide the modest double violet or smartly clad anemone from observa- tion. Each flower is by this mode of planting distinctly seen, and each contributes its beauty and its scent, by receiving the beams of the sun in equal proportions. If the trunk of a tree stands tolerably free. from deep over- shadowing branches, twine the creeping rose, the late honey- suckle, or the everlasting pea round its stem, that every inch of ground may become available. The tall naked stem of the young ash looks well festooned with roses and honeysuckles ON LAYING OUT. 1g Wherever creeping flowering plants can live, let them adcrn every nook and corner, stem, wall, and post; they are elegant in ap- pearance, and many of them, particularly clematis, are delicious in fragrant scent. If flowers are planted in round or square plots, the same rule applies in arranging them. The tallest must be placed in the center, but I recommend a lady to banish sunflowers and _ holly: hocks from her plots, and consign them to broad borders agains. a wall, or in clumps of three and three, as a screen against the north, or against any unsightly object. Their large roots draw so much nourishment from the ground, that the lesser plants suf- fer, and the soil becomes quickly exhausted. Like gluttons, they should feed alone, or their companions will languish in starvation,, and become impoverished. The wren cannot feed with the vul- ture. The south end or corner of a moderate flower garden should be fixed upon for the erection of a root house, which is not an expensive undertaking, and which forms a picturesque as well as a most useful appendage to a lady’s parterre. Thinnings of plantations, which are everywhere procured at a very moderate charge, rudely shaped and nailed into any fancied form, may supply all that is needful to the little inclosure ; and a thatch of straw, rushes, or heather, will prove a sure defense to the roof and back. ‘There, a lady may display her taste by the beauty of the flowers which she may train through the rural frame-work. There, the moss-rose, the jessamine, the honeysuckle, the convol- vulus, and many other bright and beautiful flowers, may escape and cluster around her, as she receives rest and shelter within their graceful lattice-work. There, also, may be deposited the implements of her vocation ; and during the severe weather, its warm precincts will protect the finer kinds of carnations, piiks, 2 LADIES’ FLOWER GARDENER. auriculds, d&c., which do not bear the heavy rains, or frosts of lengthened duration, without injuring the plant. Flowers are divided into three classes :—annuals, biennials, and perennials. Annuals are those flowers which are raised from seeds alone, in the spring, and which die in the autumn. They are again divi- ded into three classes :—the tender and more curious kinds; the less tender or hardier kinds; and the hardiest and common kinds. Biennials are those flowers which are produced by seed, bloom the second year, and remain two years in perfection, after which they gradually dwindle and die away. Some sorts, however, of the biennials, afford a continuation of plants by offsets, slips, and cuttings of the tops, and by layers and pipings, so that, though the parent flower dies, the species are perpetuated, particularly to continue curious double-flowered kinds, as for instance, double rockets, by root offsets, and cuttings of the young flower-stalks ; double wallflowers by slips of the small top shoots ; double sweet-williams by layers and pipings ; and carnations by layers. Perennials are those flowers which continue many years, and are propagated by root offsets, suckers, parting roots, d&e., as will be more fully particularised under the head of Perennials. It has been a debated point among florists whether plots or baskets should be devoted each to a particular variety of flower, or receive flowers of different kinds, flowering at separate seasons. Thus, many ladies set apart one plot of ground for anemones only —another plot receives only pansies, and so or. There is much to be said on both sides the question. . If a plot of ground is devoted to one variety of flower only, you can give it the appropriate mould, and amuse your eye with its expanse of bright coloring. Nothing is more beautiful than a bed of pansies, or a bed of the bright and glowing scarlet ver- ——_ ON LAYING OUT. 2) bina ; nothing can exceed the gay and flaunty ‘ints of a bed of tulips, or the rich hues of the lilac and the white petunia. to make Cuttings of ee to prune... ee ee Remarks on _... or a List of ar oh oe February, Monthly Notice for .. ia list of Perennials for a Fences against Hares and Rabbits ae Fibrous root, term explained oe Flowers, Aspect for .. Pe my! how to arrange 2 eee Flower Seeds, how to sow ae oe self-sown, how to treat ee Fiowering Shrubs, how to plant as Fly, to destroy the Green .. as Gardening, remarks on Ae aie Gardens, notices of old English ae ee 113 28 54 72 30 34 63 i4 27 72 109 68 14 91 35 52 17 25 31 69. 70 71 72 75 71 74 103 22 24 27 14 18 38 57 69 66 10 10 13 114 Garden, laying outa .. Soil far; ... ee Compost for «« Tools necessary for ... Working Dress for Gentian .. af °¢ Gentianella .. es Gillyflowers Gia as Goiden Rod .. ae Gravel Walks Green Fly, to destroy . Ground, management of .. to prepare for Seeds Gum Cistus Guernsey Lily ee Hand-glasses, substitute for .. Hares, to protect against | Hepaticas Herbaceous, term sicplaintal Hollyhocks Honesty oe Honeysuckles, to increase Hyacinths Improvement of Soils Irises - flag-leaved .. Iron Rods for Flowers .. Stakes for Roses January, Monthly Notice for list of Perennials for Jasmines to increase . : to renew the Soil for to prune devices for training onquils .. fuly, Monthly Notice for List of Perennials for ee ee INDEX. June, Monthly Notice for .. ee List of Perennials for .. oe Knob-rooted Plants oe ee Ladies’ Garden Tools ee oe working Dress ee ee Lawn Re ae oe ee Laurel * .. ae my ie Laurel, Portugal sa ee we Laurestinas mG 3s oe Layering, when to be done a oe Layers of Biennials Rhododendrons qe oe oe Roses .. 2 oe oe monthly vs ee oe Remarks on oe ee damask ee ee ve cabbage .. as ee moss oe ee eo standard .. ee ee double yellow .. ee ve Austrian .. ee oe perpetual, or four-season ve Ayrshire ee Lady Banks ee climbing ee soil for oe .. ee when and how to prune to layer oe disease of . ° oe pyramids aid beds of oe ee list of . oe ee Rosa hybrida multiflora o> oe Rustic stages advantages of .. o> oe Salt, observations on oe water for cuttings Sand, good effects of Saxifrage Seed to sow, when sha fot Perennials Bulbs eS Ae ee 66, 26 118° INDEX. Seed, Biennials .. ce Annuals ee ee how to prune ee when to gather oe Seedlings, when to remove Pink and Carnation oe Seedling-bed, to protect the September, Monthly Notice for List of Perennials for Shrubs, arrangement of oe how to plant ee when to transplant oe to make cuttings of «. when to take suckers off to prune .. ee notices of several oe list of deciduous ee evergreen ee oe Slipping, how ty perform .. Snails, to destroy a ee Snowdrops oe ee Soapsuds, to use ee ee Soils, improvement of oe amelioration of . ee Stages, rustic ae oe Staking plants 2° aA Stocks, ten-week Apis Stock, gilliflower os ek night oe *y: Stony ground, to manage oe Sultan, white and purple .. 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