Alpine Plants: A Practical Method for Growing the Rarer and More, Difficult Alpine Flowers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Clark, W. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330416864 ISBN 13: 9781330416860

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from Alpine Plants: A Practical Method for Growing the Rarer and More, Difficult Alpine Flowers

I have been induced to write this little work by the frequent requests which have been made to me for information as to how the rarer Alpines and those which, though not rare, are yet exacting in their requirements should be grown.

The book contains all necessary details as to soil, position, and drainage; the details are the result of long experience in the management of the very large collection of Alpine Plants cultivated in the York Nurseries.

I have tried to confine myself to such plants only as are difficult to establish. Every care has been taken to make the directions here given as clear as possible. I trust that, whatever the book's shortcomings may be, it will nevertheless prove useful to all interested in the culture of Alpine Plants.

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Excerpt from Alpine Plants: A Practical Method for Growing the Rarer and More, Difficult Alpine Flowers

MY object in writing this little treatise is simply to explain the method of (i) Planting, (2) the soils, and (3) the positions required by some Of the rarer Alpines, several Of which have been found very difficult to grow in many places.

Yet these plants are, for the most part, fairly easy Of culture when proper soils and aspect are given. The account Of such methods to be found in these pages will give much aid by diffusing a sound and practical knowledge of the requirements and manage ment of rockeries.

I will here give a few reasons why care as to mixtures of soils and drainage proves so beneficial to plant life.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330416864
• ISBN 13: 9781330416860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162