Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Culture of Pot-Plants in Rooms, Greenhouses,& Frames
IN the course of my work as a horticultural journalist, it has been my duty to reply to many thousands of correspondents who found themselves in difficulties, very often in connection with the management of pot-plants. Some of the difficulties, such as failures due to disease, required knowledge for their solution, but not a few called merely for a little common sense. It is astonishing the way in which some plants are treated. To mention only two instances, it seems to be a frequent practice for ladies to pour tea into pots of ferns, and I was once consulted about an aspidistra which had been regularly dosed with castor oil. If the victims contrive to exist for a time, it is regarded as proof that the treatment suits them, a method of reasoning not always confined' to plants; but sooner or later they die an unnatural death, the number killed by mistaken kindness being probably not much less than that of those which die every year from neglect.
The experience gained from this extensive correspond ence has been utilised in the present book. To keep down the price, it has been necessary to be concise; but I have also endeavoured to make every statement clear.
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