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Camellia Fimbriata. THE AMERICAN
FLOWER GARDEN DIRECTORY,
CONTAINING
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTURE OF PLANTS,
IN THE
HOT-HOUSE, GARDEN-HOUSE, FLOWER GARDEN AND
ROOMS OR PARLOURS,
FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR.
With
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANTS MOST DESIRABLE IN EACH, THE NATURE OF THE SOIL AND
SITUATION BEST ADAPTED TO THEIR GROWTH, THE PROPER SEASON FOR
TRANSPLANTING, &c.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ERECTING A
Hot-house, Green-house, and laying out a Flower Garden.
ALSO
Table of Soils most congenial to the Plants contained in the Work.
THE WHOLE ADAPTED TO EITHER LARGE OR SMALL GARDENS,
WITH
LISTS OF ANNUALS, BIENNIALS, AND ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS,
CONTENTS, A GENERAL INDEX,
AND A FRONTISPIECE OF CAMELLIA FIMBRIATA.
By HIBBERT AND BUIST.
EXOTIC NURSERYMEN AND FLORISTS.
PHILADELPHIA:
E. L. CAREY & A. HART—CHESNUT STREET.
BOSTON:
ALLEN & TICKNOR.
1834.
PREFACE.
This volume owes its existence principally to the repeated requestsof a number of our fair patrons, and amateur supporters, whose enquiriesand wishes for a practical manual on Floraculture, at last inducedus to prepare a work on the subject. That now offered is givenunaffectedly and simply as a plain and easy treatise on this increasinglyinteresting subject. It will at once be perceived that there are nopretensions to literary claims—the directions are given in the simplestmanner—the arrangement made as lucidly as was in our power—andthe whole is presented with the single wish of its being practically useful.How far our object has been attained of course our readers mustjudge. Nothing has been intentionally concealed; and all that is assertedis the result of minute observation, close application, and anextended continuous experience from childhood. We pretend not toinfallibility, and are not so sanguine as to declare our views the mostperfect that can be attained. But we can so far say, that the practicehere recommended has been found very successful.
Some very probably may be disappointed in not having the meansof propagating as clearly delineated as those of culture; but to haveentered into all the minutiæ connected therewith, would have formedmaterials for two volumes larger than the present. We might havedescribed that branch, as it has already been done in works published...