 | Garden structures - 1869 - 416 pages
...no straw should be used. 8. Where especially clear and beautiful specimens are wanted, they may be packed carefully in dry bran, or in layers of perfectly...dry cotton-wool, either in closed boxes or in large garden-pots. Scentless saw-dust will answer the same purpose ; but pine saw-dust is apt to communicate... | |
 | Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) - Botany - 1870 - 398 pages
...straw should be used. 8. That where especially clear and beautiful specimens are wanted, they may be packed carefully in dry bran, or in layers of perfectly...kinds may be preserved in perfection to a second year. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. MAECH 16,1869. A. MITEIU.Y, Esq., in the Chair. series of the Society's Journal,... | |
 | Jane Loudon - 1870 - 396 pages
...no straw should be used. 8. Where especially clear and beautiful specimens are wanted, they may be packed carefully in dry bran, or in layers of perfectly...sawdust is apt to communicate an unpleasant taste. T 2 9. With care early apples may be kept till Christmas, while many kinds may be preserved in perfection... | |
 | Jane Loudon - 1880 - 204 pages
...Where especially clear and beautiful specimens are wanted, they may be packed carefully in o>ybran, or in layers of perfectly dry cotton-wool, either...kinds may be preserved in perfection to a second year. Plant Houses. In the last week of this month, the more tender kinds of greenhouse plants should be... | |
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packed carefully in dry bran, or in layers of perfectly dry cotton-wool, either in closed boxes, or in large garden pots. Scentless saw-dust will answer the same purpose, but pine saw-dust is apt to communicate an unpleasant taste. 9. With care early... 