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By L. H. Bailey
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The guide presents practical, experience-based instruction for designing and maintaining home grounds, covering garden planning and landscape composition, lawn construction and care, soil preparation, drainage, and tools for tillage. It explains planting techniques, propagation by seed and cuttings, transplanting, pruning, tree surgery, and protection against pests and diseases with spraying and fumigation formulas. Chapters address hotbeds and coldframes, storage of produce, and the creation of ornamental effects through choices of shrubs, borders, hedges, rockeries, and aquatic plants. Advice is aimed at the amateur gardener and emphasizes adaptable principles over rigid locality-specific prescriptions.

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Title: Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)

Author: L. H. Bailey

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Manual of Gardening

A PRACTICAL GUIDE
TO THE MAKING OF HOME GROUNDS AND THE GROWING OF FLOWERS, FRUITS, AND VEGETABLES FOR HOME USE

by L. H. Bailey

SECOND EDITION

1910

Contents

EXPLANATION
CHAPTER I. THE POINT OF VIEW
What a garden is
CHAPTER II. THE GENERAL PLAN OR THEORY OF THE PLACE
The plan of the grounds
The picture in the landscape
Birds; and cats
The planting is part of the design or picture
The flower-growing should be part of the design
Defects in flower-growing
Lawn flower-beds
Flower-borders
The old-fashioned garden
Contents of the flower-borders
The value of plants may lie in foliage and form rather than in bloom
Odd and formal trees
Poplars and the like
Plant-forms
Various specific examples
An example
Another example
A third example
A small back yard
A city lot
General remarks
Review
CHAPTER III. EXECUTION OF SOME OF THE LANDSCAPE FEATURES
The grading
The terrace
The bounding lines
Walks and drives
The question of drainage, curbing, and gutters
The materials
Making the borders
Making the lawn
Preparing the ground
The kind of grass
When and how to sow the seed
Securing a firm sod
The mowing
Fall treatment
Spring treatment
Watering lawns
Sodding the lawn
A combination of sodding and seeding
Sowing with sod
Other ground covers
CHAPTER IV. THE HANDLING OF THE LAND
The draining of the land
Trenching and subsoiling
Preparation of the surface
The saving of moisture
Hand tools for weeding and subsequent tillage and other hand work
The hoe
Scarifiers
Hand-weeders
Trowels and their kind
Rollers
Markers
Enriching the land
CHAPTER V. THE HANDLING OF THE PLANTS
Sowing the seeds
Propagating by cuttings
Dormant stem-cuttings
Cuttings of roots
Green cuttings
Cuttings of leaves
General treatment
Transplanting young seedlings
Transplanting established plants and trees
Tub-plants
When to transplant
Depth to transplant
Making the rows straight
Cutting-back; filling
Removing very large trees
Winter protection of plants
Pruning
Tree surgery and protection
Tree guards
Mice and rabbits
Girdled trees
Repairing street trees
The grafting of plants
Keeping records of the plantation
The storing of fruits and vegetables
The forcing of plants
Coldframes
Hotbeds
Management of hotbeds
CHAPTER VI. PROTECTING PLANTS FROM THINGS THAT PREY ON THEM
Screens and covers
Fumigating
Soaking tubers and seeds
Spraying
Insecticide spraying formulas
Fungicide spraying formulas
Treatment for some of the common insects
Treatment for some of the common plant diseases
CHAPTER VII. THE GROWING OF THE ORNAMENTAL PLANTS—THE CLASSES OF PLANTS, AND LISTS
Planting for immediate effect
The use of “foliage” trees and shrubs
Windbreaks and screens
The making of hedges
The borders
The flower-beds
Bedding effects
Plants for subtropical effects
Aquatic and bog plants
Rockeries and alpine plants
1. PLANTS FOR CARPET-BEDS
Lists for carpet-beds
2. THE ANNUAL PLANTS
List of annuals by color of flowers
Useful annuals for edgings of beds and walks, and for ribbon-beds
Annuals that continue to bloom after frost
List of annuals suitable for bedding (that is, for “mass-effects” of color)
List of annuals by height
Distances for planting annuals
3. HARDY HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS
Perennial herbs suitable for lawn and “planting” effects
A brief seasonal flower-garden or border list of herbaceous perennials
One hundred extra-hardy perennial herbs
4. BULBS AND TUBERS
Fall-planted bulbs
List of outdoor fall-planted bulbs for the North
Winter bulbs
Summer bulbs
5. THE SHRUBBERY
List of shrubbery plants for the North
Shrubs for the South
6. CLIMBING PLANTS
Annual herbaceous climbers
Perennial herbaceous climbers
Woody perennial climbers
Climbing roses
7. TREES FOR LAWNS AND STREETS
List of hardy deciduous trees for the North
Non-coniferous trees for the South
8. CONIFEROUS EVERGREEN SHRUBS AND TREES
List of shrubby conifers
Arboreous conifers
Conifers for the South
9. WINDOW-GARDENS
The window-box for outside effect
The inside window-garden, or “house plants”
Bulbs in the window-garden
Watering house plants
Hanging baskets
Aquarium
CHAPTER VIII. THE GROWING OF THE ORNAMENTAL PLANTS—INSTRUCTIONS OF PARTICULAR KINDS

Abutilons; agapanthus; alstremeria; amaryllis; anemone; aralia; araucaria; auricula; azaleas; begonias; cactus; caladium; calceolaria; calla; camellias; cannas; carnations; century plants; chrysanthemums; cineraria; clematis; coleus; crocus; croton; cyclamen; dahlia; ferns; freesia; fuchsia; geranium; gladiolus; gloxinia; grevillea; hollyhocks; hyacinths; iris; lily; lily-of-the-valley; mignonette; moon-flowers; narcissus; oleander; oxalis; palms; pandanus; pansy; pelargonium; peony; phlox; primulas; rhododendrons; rose; smilax; stocks; sweet pea; swainsona; tuberose; tulips; violet; wax plant.

CHAPTER IX. THE GROWING OF THE FRUIT PLANTS
Dwarf fruit-trees
Age and size of trees
Pruning
Thinning the fruit
Washing and scrubbing the trees
Gathering and keeping fruit

Almond; apples; apricot; blackberry; cherry; cranberry; currant; dewberry; fig; gooseberry; grape; mulberry; nuts; orange; peach; pear; plum; quince; raspberry; strawberry;

CHAPTER X. THE GROWING OF THE VEGETABLE PLANTS
Vegetables for six
The classes of vegetables
The culture of the leading vegetables

Asparagus; artichoke; artichoke; Jerusalem; bean; beet; broccoli; brussels sprouts; cabbage; carrot; cauliflower; celeriac; celery; chard; chicory; chervil; chives; collards; corn salad; corn; cress; cucumber; dandelion; egg-plant; endive; garlic; horseradish; kale; kohlrabi; leek; lettuce; mushroom; mustard; muskmelon; okra; onion; parsley; parsnip; pea; pepper; potato; radish; rhubarb; salsify; sea-kale; sorrel; spearmint; spinach; squash; sweet-potato; tomato; turnips and rutabagas; watermelon.

CHAPTER XI. SEASONAL REMINDERS
For the North
For the South
INDEX

LIST OF PLATES

PLATE I. The open center.
PLATE II. The plan of the place.
PLATE III. Open-center treatment in a semi-tropical country.
PLATE IV. Subtropical bedding against a building. Caladiums, cannas, abutilons, permanent rhododendrons, and other large stuff, with tuberous begonias and balsams between.
PLATE V. A subtropical bed. Center of cannas, with border of Pennisetum longistylum (a grass) started in late February or early March.
PLATE VI. A tree that gives character to a place.
PLATE VII. Bedding with palms. If a bricked-up pit is made about the porch, pot palms may be plunged in it in spring and tub conifers in winter; and fall bulbs in tin cans (so that the receptacles will not split with frost) may be plunged among the evergreens.
PLATE VIII. A well-planted entrance. Common trees and bushes, with Boston ivy. on the post, and Berberis Thunbergii in front.
PLATE IX. A rocky bank covered with permanent informal planting.
PLATE X. A shallow lawn pond, containing water-lilies, variegated sweet flag, iris, and subtropical bedding at the rear; fountain covered with parrot’s feather (Myriophyllum proserpinacoides).
PLATE XI. A back yard with summer house, and gardens beyond.
PLATE XII. A back yard with heavy flower-garden planting.
PLATE XIII. The pageant of summer. Gardens of C.W. Dowdeswell, England, from a painting by Miss Parsons.
PLATE XIV. Virginia creeper screen, on an old fence, with wall-flowers and hollyhocks in front.
PLATE XV. Scuppernong grape, the arbor vine of the South. This plate shows the noted scuppernongs on Roanoke Island, of which the origin is unknown, but which were of great size more than one hundred years ago.
PLATE XVI. A flower-garden of China asters, with border of one of the dusty millers (Centaurea).
PLATE XVII. The peony. One of the most steadfast of garden flowers.
PLATE XVIII. Cornflower or bachelor’s button. Centaurea Cyanus.
PLATE XIX. Pyracantha in fruit. One of the best ornamental-fruited plants for the middle and milder latitudes.
PLATE XX. A simple but effective window-box, containing geraniums, petunias, verbenas, heliotrope, and vines.
PLATE XXI. The king of fruits. Newtown as grown in the Pacific country.
PLATE XXII. Wall-training of a pear tree.
PLATE XXIII. Cherry currant.
PLATE XXIV. Golden Bantam sweet corn.
PLATE XXV. The garden radish, grown in fall, of the usual spring sorts.