Your Plants - Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender - and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Your Plants, by James Sheehan This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden Author: James Sheehan Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21442] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOUR PLANTS *** Produced by Tom Roch, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University) YOUR PLANTS. PLAIN AND PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF TENDER AND HARDY PLANTS IN THE HOUSE AND IN THE GARDEN. BY JAMES SHEEHAN. NEW YORK: ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 1919 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by the ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. How to Make a Lawn 7 CHAPTER II. Soil for Potting—Artificial Fertilizers 10 CHAPTER III. Selecting and Sowing Seeds 12 CHAPTER IV. Making and Planting Flower Beds 14 CHAPTER V. Watering Plants—Is Cold Water Injurious? 16 CHAPTER VI. Atmosphere and Temperature.—Insects 19 CHAPTER VII.