Your plants

A practical manual offering concise, hands-on guidance for cultivating tender and hardy plants both indoors and in the garden. It explains soil and potting mixes, seed selection and sowing, bed and lawn construction, watering, temperature control, pest management, and wintering; discusses color combinations and the relation of plants to health; and gives step-by-step propagation techniques including layering, cuttings, budding, and grafting, with practical tables for rooting times. The work also treats specific groups—bulbs, roses, geraniums, azaleas, camellias, fuchsias, cactuses, climbers, aquatic plants—plus hanging baskets, wardian cases, rockeries, pruning, and floral symbolism.