Practical Hints on Planting Ornamental Trees; With Particular Reference to Coniferae ... baixar o livro de graça

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONIFEROUS PLANTS. Climate.?Soil.?Selecting the Plants.?Planting.?An enumeration of the principal kinds suitable for out-door cultivation, with their synonyms and descriptions. Climate.?Anomalous accounts of the hardiness of particular Pines in different localities are constantly reaching us. Thus, one gentleman complains that certain species, which succeed admirably with his neighbour, always fail with him, though the localities appear of a similar nature, and other circumstances are equal; another, that many of his trees pass uninjured through the ordeal of the most severe winter, but are seriously damaged by frosts in spring; while a third does not experience any material inconvenience from spring frosts, but regrets the loss of vigorous shoots in autumn and early winter; and the writers generally conclude by expressing their belief that the climate of their locality is unfavourable for the cultivation of such plants. Now, without being able, in the absence of an acquaintance with the circumstances under which such failures occur, with the original condition of the plants, and with the mode of planting, and subsequent attention, to decide on the real cause of such failures, we have no hesitation in asserting, that, in the majority of instances, causes other than the direct influence of climate alone are at the root of the matter. Coniferous plants, occupying cold undraiued heavy soils, are often rendered susceptible to the influence of autumn frosts, from the fact that they do not commence growing till late in the season, and, as a natural consequence, their shoots are not sufliciently matured when growth ceases in the autumn. Under favourable circumstances growth commences early; in many instances, as we shall presently show, too early; and a long season is requir...