gmane.plants.sansevieria.collectors

[Sansevierias] my website

Hermine Stover — 2013-06-19T01:59:59

my website has suddenly developed ISSUES which are so complex that 
Roger has been on the phone all day getting WRONG INFORMATION from 
the people who host our website. this is really two problems. The 
first one is some tech thing. The second one is Roger has made the 
website and whereas he knows how to do that, he does not know how to 
SCREAM PROPERLY AT THE IDIOT ON THE PHONE WHEN HE CALLS FOR HELP.

<almost rips out hair>

hermine



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[Sansevierias] RE Last picture

Norma - Crasulady2 — 2013-06-18T21:07:42

I missed the picture,  I have six of them all from Michael Vassar with field collection numbers and HBG # I just wonder if any match what was posted today?  Norma

[Sansevierias] Next one Speck's .21124

e-mail newearth — 2013-06-18T17:17:51

Sansevieria sp. Speck's Nr.21124 Ethiopia. Sidamo pass. Loc.17/13.
Again nothing new looks like aetiopica to me though a very nice clone and
well worth having.

[Sansevierias] Two new Speck's plants # 22592

e-mail newearth — 2013-06-18T17:12:36

Big thick leaves but nothing new me thinks I have started collecting labels.
 Sansevieria sp Speck's 22592 Tanzania, 154km S of Sumbawanga (43 / 46)

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[Sansevierias] Speck's 21736

e-mail newearth — 2013-06-17T12:24:37

Here is the Sansevieria sp. Tanzania. near Morogoro Loc.20/1 Speck's 21736
starting to show the flower spike. The more I look at it I think subspicata
what do you think. At first I thought it might be something new now I'm not
so sure.
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[Sansevierias] Flower

e-mail newearth — 2013-06-17T00:55:42

The flower on the Speck's plant #22280 sp. nova aff. bella has finally
started to flower tonight 27th June. The flower spike is 65cm (26") long.
The picture is of the top 35cm of the inflorescence.
No scent detected as yet only about six flowers open 0200 gmt.
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[Sansevierias] Early American Gardens

Hermine Stover — 2013-06-16T16:09:37


<http://americangardenhistory.blogspot.com/>Early American Gardens


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[Sansevierias] herbalist

Hermine Stover — 2013-06-09T15:33:31

Herbal by German botanist Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:05 AM PDT

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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
550 woodcuts by David Kandel. Cherry Tree


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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
550 woodcuts by David Kandel. Lime Tree


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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
550 woodcuts by David Kandel. Maple Tree


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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
550 woodcuts by David Kandel. Mulberry Tree


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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
550 woodcuts by David Kandel. Oak Tree


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Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)  German botanist. His 1546  herbal had 
550 woodcuts by David Kandel. Pear Tree

[Sansevierias] Book Reviews

2013-06-06T18:00:27

[Sansevierias] "...the MOTHER of TENZAN" [1 Attachment]

2013-06-06T17:04:15

Yes, metallica is the mother of Tenzan. I have posted here many times in the past pictures of 'Tenzan' and have given it away to many with the label Tenzan.  Perhaps a decade ago, Tenzan was marketed by Asiatica under the catchy, alliterative name, 'Siam Silver'. The name 'took' and it may now be impossible to regain its original and correct name of 'Tenzan'. Such is the power of the computer world. I would like to think persons on this forum would always use the correct name when the subject comes up.
I am attaching here a picture of metallica, the Mother of Tenzan, that was collected by myself in southern Florida 8 years ago. Given enough room, this species is a hoss of a plant, not really suitable for pot culture, although it can certainly be grown in pots. Note yardstick in picture.
M.

----- Original Message -----
From: Hermine Stover <hermine< at >endangeredspecies.com>
To: Sansevierias< at >yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:43:28 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Sansevierias] Re: Screwing around with cultivar names,  hyacinthoides/metallica

At 12:59 PM 6/5/2013, you wrote:

I just want to clarify some butter here.

At one time there was a plant which we called S. metallica, which turned
out to be S. kirkii. Dave Grigsby sold a lot of this, and by a lot, I
mean a couple of hundred of them a year to the few people who collected
Sansevierias.

At one time there was a plant called S.  guineensis which it turns
out is SOMETIMES a plant which is now REALLY called
metallica, which grows in parts of Florida as an escape. and is the
MOTHER of TENZAN.

hermine

[Sansevierias] Nice flowering Sansevieria not mine.

e-mail newearth — 2013-06-04T10:07:44

Okay Gang over on FB on the "Sansevieria Flower Blooms" Group
Dharmawan <https://www.facebook.com/dharmawan.arifin?hc_location=stream>
has
put up some pictures of his plant in flower see bellow. Unfortunately he
does not have a name for it though he does say it's a species not a hybrid.
I reckon it just might be *Sansevieria humiflora.*
If you go over to the group on fb the language is usually Tai/Indonesian.
but if you ask a question in English they will usually reply and anyway
that's what the translator is for.
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[Sansevierias] Early American Gardens

Hermine Stover — 2013-06-03T01:06:59


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William Russell Birch (1755-1834) views American Gentlemen's Country 
Seats in 1808

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 09:27 PM PDT

English landscape artist & designer William Russell Birch (1755-1834) 
arrived in Philadelphia in 1794, with a letter of introduction from 
Pennsylvania expatriate artist Benjamin West. After publishing his 
successful book of engravings, City of Philadelphia in the State of 
Pennsylvania, North America, as it appeared in the Year 1800, he 
traveled up & down the Atlantic coast sketching for his 2nd American 
book of engravings, The Country Seats of the United States published in 1808.

Birch arrived on the wharf in Philadelphia, with an intimate 
knowledge the actual look of country estates in England as well as 
the manner in which they had been depicted in art during the last 
half of the 18th-century.  He was sure he knew what proper, educated, 
taste was in both architecture & landscape design & wanted to share 
that insight with a hopefully hungry & appreciative American 
audience, eager to buy his books.  Country estates in the new 
republic would not compare with country estates in the motherland, 
but he would depict them from a viewpoint of looking up at 
them.  They would sit as small crowns in a natural American landscape 
owing most of its design to Nature rather than the landscape architect's hand.

In his introduction, Birch wrote, "The comforts and advantages of a 
Country Residence, after Domestic accomodations are consulted, 
consist more in the beauty of the situation, than in the massy 
magnitude of the edifice: the choice ornaments of Architecture are by 
no means intended to be disparaged, they are on the contrary, not 
simply desirable, but requisite.  The man of taste will select his 
situation with skill, and add elegance and animation to the best 
choice.  In the United States the face of nature is so variegated; 
Nature has been so sportive and the means so easy of acquiring 
positions fit to gratify the most refined and rural enjoyment, that 
labour and expenditure of Art is not so great as in Countries less 
favoured."  Oh dear, Birch's 2nd book did not sell well in the new 
American republic.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Hoboken in New 
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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Hampton the Seat of 
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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Landsdown the Seat 
of the late Wm Bingham Esq Pennsylvania.  Country Seats of the United 
States 1808


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Mount Vernon, 
Virginia, Seat of the late Genl G. Washington.  Country Seats of the 
United States 1808.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Fountain Green 
Pennsylvania the Seat of Mr. S. Meeker.  Country Seats of the United 
States 1808.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Solitude in 
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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Devon in 
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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Mount Sidney, the 
Seat of Gen. John Barker.  Pennsylvania. Country Seats of the United 
States 1808


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Seat of Mr. 
Duplantier near New Orleans & lately occupied as Head Quarters by 
Gen. J. Wilkinson.  Country Seats of the United States 1808.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Montebello Birch 
General S Smith Balt.  Country Seats of the United States 1808


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) 
Woodlands.  Woodlands the Seat of Mr Wm Hamilton, Pennsylvania. 
Country Seats of the United States 1808

[Sansevierias] Early American Gardens

Hermine Stover — 2013-06-02T16:54:48


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Historic American Seed and Plant Catalogs from Smithsonian 
Institution Libraries




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William Russell Birch (1755-1834) views American Gentlemen's Country 
Seats in 1808

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 09:27 PM PDT

English landscape artist & designer William Russell Birch (1755-1834) 
arrived in Philadelphia in 1794, with a letter of introduction from 
Pennsylvania expatriate artist Benjamin West. After publishing his 
successful book of engravings, City of Philadelphia in the State of 
Pennsylvania, North America, as it appeared in the Year 1800, he 
traveled up & down the Atlantic coast sketching for his 2nd American 
book of engravings, The Country Seats of the United States published in 1808.

Birch arrived on the wharf in Philadelphia, with an intimate 
knowledge the actual look of country estates in England as well as 
the manner in which they had been depicted in art during the last 
half of the 18th-century.  He was sure he knew what proper, educated, 
taste was in both architecture & landscape design & wanted to share 
that insight with a hopefully hungry & appreciative American 
audience, eager to buy his books.  Country estates in the new 
republic would not compare with country estates in the motherland, 
but he would depict them from a viewpoint of looking up at 
them.  They would sit as small crowns in a natural American landscape 
owing most of its design to Nature rather than the landscape architect's hand.

In his introduction, Birch wrote, "The comforts and advantages of a 
Country Residence, after Domestic accomodations are consulted, 
consist more in the beauty of the situation, than in the massy 
magnitude of the edifice: the choice ornaments of Architecture are by 
no means intended to be disparaged, they are on the contrary, not 
simply desirable, but requisite.  The man of taste will select his 
situation with skill, and add elegance and animation to the best 
choice.  In the United States the face of nature is so variegated; 
Nature has been so sportive and the means so easy of acquiring 
positions fit to gratify the most refined and rural enjoyment, that 
labour and expenditure of Art is not so great as in Countries less 
favoured."  Oh dear, Birch's 2nd book did not sell well in the new 
American republic.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Hoboken in New 
Jersey Seat of Mr. John Stevens. Country Seats of the United States 1808


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Hampton the Seat of 
Gen. Charles Ridgley, Maryland.  Country Seats of the United States 1808


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Landsdown the Seat 
of the late Wm Bingham Esq Pennsylvania.  Country Seats of the United 
States 1808


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Mount Vernon, 
Virginia, Seat of the late Genl G. Washington.  Country Seats of the 
United States 1808.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Fountain Green 
Pennsylvania the Seat of Mr. S. Meeker.  Country Seats of the United 
States 1808.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Solitude in 
Pennsylvania belonging to Mr. Penn.  Country Seats of the United States 1808.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Devon in 
Pennsylvania the Seat of Mr. Dallas.  Country Seats of the United States 1808.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Mount Sidney, the 
Seat of Gen. John Barker.  Pennsylvania. Country Seats of the United 
States 1808


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Seat of Mr. 
Duplantier near New Orleans & lately occupied as Head Quarters by 
Gen. J. Wilkinson.  Country Seats of the United States 1808.


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) Montebello Birch 
General S Smith Balt.  Country Seats of the United States 1808


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William Russell Birch (English artist, 1755-1834) 
Woodlands.  Woodlands the Seat of Mr Wm Hamilton, Pennsylvania. 
Country Seats of the United States 1808

[Sansevierias] Early American Gardens

Hermine Stover — 2013-05-29T18:55:45


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Historic American Seed and Plant Catalogs from Smithsonian 
Institution Libraries



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[Sansevierias] Stepeliads

2013-05-28T20:47:08

Anyone else on this list into Stepeliads?? 

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[Sansevierias] Early American Gardens

Hermine Stover — 2013-05-27T16:56:36


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[Sansevierias] Medical Botany

Hermine Stover — 2013-05-23T16:55:19

    * Herbal - Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. Boston, 1817


Herbal - Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. Boston, 1817


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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817-20. Iris versicolor, 
Blue flag, or flower de luce

The author of American Medical Botany Jacob Bigelow (1787-1879) 
graduated as a doctor but pursued his interest in botany leading him 
to publish the first systematic plant survey of the flora indigenous 
to Boston, in 1814. Along with William Barton's Vegetable Materia 
Medica, publication of which was almost simultaneous, Bigelow's book 
was one of the first two American botanical books with colored 
illustrations. American Medical Botany: being a collection of the 
native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their 
botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in 
medicine, diet and the arts was published in 6 parts, later bound 
into 3 volumes, appearing in 1817-1820.

Bigelow taught botany at Harvard University while maintaining his 
medical practice. He also was the botanist & landscape architect for 
Mount Auburn Cemetery. Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded in 1831, as 
"America's first garden cemetery", or the first "rural cemetery", 
with classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain. The use 
of this gentle of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of 
the term cemetery, as opposed to graveyard. Cemetery evolves from the 
Greek term for "a sleeping place." The 174 acre Massachusetts 
cemetery is important both for its historical precedents & for its 
role as an arboretum.

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. , Datura stramonium, Thorn apple.

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Apocynum 
androsaemifolium (dog's bane)

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  Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Datura stramonium (thorn apple)

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  Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Euphorbia ipecacuanha

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  Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Geranium maculatum 
(common cranesbill)

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Ictodes foetidus (skunk cabbage)

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Illicium foridanum (starry anise)

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Kalmia latifolia 
(mountain laurel)

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Laurus sassafras (sassafras tree)

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  Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Liriodendron 
tulipifera (tulip tree)

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  Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Magnolia glauca - 
small magnolia

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Menyanthes trifoliata (buck bean)

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  Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Nicotina tabacum (tobacco)

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Nymphea odorata - sweet 
scented water lily

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Rhododendron maximum 
(american rose bay)

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Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Rubus villosus (tall blackberry)

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  Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 1817. Sanguinaria 
canadensis (blood root)

[Sansevierias] Attachmant

e-mail newearth — 2013-05-21T10:52:08

Too Late I already did. It opened up as a picture of a hahnii with rather
chewed leaves, did someone let the goats out?. Nothing else no nasties,
though my system is well protected. I'll run ye olde virus checker to make
sure.
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[Sansevierias] sp.nova aff bella update

e-mail newearth — 2013-05-14T15:23:30

The inflorescence continues to grow total length is now 30cm (12").Excess
nectar beads are appearing at the joints along the inflorescence.
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[Sansevierias] Early American Gardens/yes I know it is not about Sansevierias, but...

Hermine Stover — 2013-05-09T15:33:45

Historic American Seed and Plant Catalogs from 
Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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Root Cellars in 18th & early 19th-century America

Posted: 08 May 2013 05:59 AM PDT

On the Use of Root Cellars

 From Bernard M'Mahon's 1806 American Gardener's 
Calendar. B. Graves, no. 40, North Fourth-Street, Philadelphia

Broccoli.

The early sown broccoli plants, should now be 
planted out into beds of good rich earth, in an 
open situation; the purple kind at two feet and a 
half distance, every way, and the white at the distance of three feet.

Broccoli seeds of both these kinds, as well as of 
any other variety which you would wish to 
cultivate, should be sown early in this month for 
a second principal crop, for winter and spring 
use. Sow them in a bed or border of rich earth, 
in an open exposure, each kind separate and rake them in regularly.

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Marcia Neblett (American artist, b 1970) Broccoli Â© Copyright 2002

In the middle and eastern states, where the frost 
is too powerful, for the standing out of these 
plants during winter, on its approach, they must 
be taken up, and planted in earth up to their 
leaves, either in CELLARS, or under sheds, where 
they can be protected from wet and very rigorous 
frosts, and they will continue to produce their 
fine heads, during all the winter months ; which 
are equal to any cauliflowers. On the opening of 
spring, plant out the stalks of the purple kind, 
and they will produce abundance of the most 
delicious sprouts; the white, do not answer for that purpose.

These plants even if hung up in a CELLAR, would 
shoot forth their flowers or heads, pretty much about their usual time.

Forcing Asparagus

Hot-beds for forcing early asparagus, may be made 
any time this month, for which purpose you must 
be provided with proper plants; these are 
previously raised in the natural ground from 
seed, as hereafter directed, which being 
transplanted from the seed-bed into others duly 
prepared for their reception, and having two or 
three years growth there, they then are of the 
proper size and strength for forcing. But 
observe, that in those parts of the Union where 
the ground is subject at this season to be bound 
up by frost, previous precaution will be 
necessary, in order to secure a supply of plants 
when wanted for this purpose; therefore, before 
the setting in of the severe winter frost, cover 
a sufficient number in the beds wherein they are 
growing, with as much dry litter or leaves of 
trees, &c. as will effectually keep the ground 
from being frozen, so that you can remove it, and 
take up the plants conveniently when wanted.

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Marcia Neblett (American artist, b 1970) Asparagus Â© Copyright 2002

Or you may, on the approach of severe frosts, 
take up a sufficient quantity with as little 
injury to the roots as possible, which may be 
planted in sand or dry earth in a warm CELLAR, in 
the same manner as directed for planting them in 
the frame, covering their crowns about an inch, 
observing not to croud the plants for fear of 
their becoming mouldy; and in mild weather 
ventilate the CELLAR as often as possible, to 
prevent any bad effect to the roots from stagnant 
air: but when it can be done, it will be much 
better to take up the plants out of their beds according as you want them.

The different pressings being mixed as you think 
proper, should be immediately put into clean 
casks or hogsheads, placed in a warm room or dry 
CELLAR, and filled to within two inches of the 
bungholes, which should be covered with pieces of 
cloth, laid loosely on, to prevent dirt from falling into the liquor.

Wine

When the 1iquor is drawn into clean sweet casks, 
place them in the CELLAR, fill them up within an 
inch or two of the top, and lay a piece of 
leather with a small weight on it over each 
bung-hole that may yield to a second 
fermentation, which generally takes place. When 
the wine has sealed or ceased to ferment, bung 
the casks as close as possible, and the 
subsequent treatment is exactly the same as directed for white wines.

A wine CELLAR should be dry, so deep under ground 
as that the temperature of it heat, may be nearly 
the same winter and summer: it should be at a 
distance from streets, highways, workshops, 
sewers and necessaries; if arched over, the better.

Fruits

According as the fruits are gathered, carry them 
into the fruitery, or into some convenient dry, 
clean, apartment, and lay them carefully in 
heaps, each sort separate, for about ten days, or 
two weeks, in order that the watery juices may 
transpire; which will make them keep longer, and 
render them much better for eating, than if put up finally as soon as pulled.

When they have lain in heaps that time, wipe each 
fruit, one after another, with a clean, dry 
cloth, and if you have a very warm dry CELLAR, 
where frost is by no means likely to enter, nor 
the place subject to much dampness; lay them 
singly, upon shelves, coated with dry straw, and 
cover them with a layer'of the same.

Another method, and a very good one, is to be 
provided with a number of large earthen jars, and 
a quantity of moss, in a perfectly dry state; and 
when the fruits are wiped dry as befort directed, 
your jars being also dry, lay therein layer about 
of fruit and moss, till the jars are near full, 
then cover with a layer of moss.

Suffer them to remain in this state for eight or 
ten days, then examine a stratum or two at the 
top to sec if the moss and fruits are perfectly 
dry; and if you find them in a good condition, 
stop the jars up with good cork plugs, and cover 
them with some melted rosin to keep out air. The 
pears and apples to be used this way should be of 
the latest and best keeping kinds, and such as 
are not, generally, fit for use till February, March, or April.

After the jars are sealed as above, place them in 
a warm dry CELLAR or room on a bed of perfectly 
dry sand, at least one foot thick ; and about the 
middle of November, or sooner if there is any 
danger to be apprehended from frost, fill up 
between the jars with very dry sand, until it is 
a foot thick round and over them. Thus you may 
preserve pears in the greatest perfection, for 
eight, or nine months, and apples twelve.

Be particularly careful to examine every fruit as 
you wipe it, lest it is bruised, which would 
cause it soon to rot and communicate the 
infection, so that in a little time much injury 
might be sustained, in consequence of a trifling 
neglect in the first instance: but above all 
things, place your fruit whatever way they are 
put up, completely out of the reach of frost.

Greenhouse Plants

The deciduous Green-house plants, such as the 
Lagerstramia indica, Punica grana, or double 
flowering pomegranate, Croton tebiferurn, or 
tallow-tree, &c. may be placed on a platform 
erected at the back of the stage, as noticed in 
page 82, or they may be preserved very well 
during the winter, in a dry warm CELLAR, that has 
windows to admit light, air, &c. as necessity may require.

Preserving Cabbages and Borecole, for Winter and Spring use.

Immediately previous to the setting in of hard 
frost, take up your cabbages and savoys, 
observing to do it in a dry day; turn their tops 
downward and let them remain so for a few hours, 
to drain off any water that may be lodged between 
the leaves; then make choice of a ridge of dry 
earth in a well sheltered warm exposure, and 
plant them down to their heads therein, close to 
one another, having previously taken off some of 
their loose hanging leaves. Immediately erect 
over them a low temporary shed, of any kind that 
will keep them perfectly free from wet, which is 
to be open at both ends, to admit a current of 
air in mild dry weather. These ends are to be 
closed with straw when the weather is very 
severe. In this situation your cabbages will keep 
in a high state of preservation till spring, for 
being kept perfectly free from wet as well as 
from the action of the sun, the frost will have 
little or no effect upon them. In such a place 
the heads may be cut off as wanted, and if 
frozen, soak them in spring, well, or pump water, 
for a few hours previous to their being cooked, 
which will dissolve the frost and extract any 
disagreeable taste occasioned thereby.

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Marcia Neblett (American artist, b 1970) Cabbage Â© Copyright 2002

Some plant their cabbages, after being taken up 
and drained as above, in airy or well ventillated 
CELLARS, in earth or sand up to their heads, 
where they will keep tolerably well, but in 
close, warm, or damp CELLARS, they soon decay.

Others make a trench in dry sandy ground, and 
place the cabbages therein, after being well 
drained and dry, and most of their outside loose 
green leaves pulled off, roots upward, the heads 
contiguous to, but not touching each other; they 
then cover them with the dryest earth or sand 
that can be conveniently procured, and form a 
ridge of earth over them like the roof of a 
house; some apply dry straw immediately'round the 
heads, but this is a bad practice, as the straw 
will soon become damp and mouldy, and will of 
course communicate the disorder to the cabbages.

Upon the whole the first-method is in my opinion 
the most preferable, as there is no way in which 
cabbages will keep better, if preserved from wet; 
and besides, they can be conveniently obtained, 
whenever they are wanted for use

The green and brown curled borecole being very 
hardy, will require but little protection; they 
may now be taken up and planted in a ridge 
tolerably close together, and during severe frost 
covered lightly with straw, this will preserve 
them sufficiently, and during winter the heads 
may be cut off as they are wanted for use; the 
stems if taken up and planted in rows, as early 
in March as the weather will admit, will produce 
abundance of the most delicious sprouts.

In the southern states, and even in warm, soils 
and exposures in the middle states, borecole will 
stand the winter in open beds without any covering whatever.

Cauliflowers and Broccoli

Your late cauliflowers, and broccoli, will now be 
producing their heads; therefore it will be 
necessary to break down some of the largest 
leaves over the flowers, to preserve them from 
the effects of sun, rain, and frost.

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Italian Botanical Print

Such plants of either sort as are not likely to 
flower before the commencement of severe frost, 
should be taken up and planted as recommended in 
the first instance for cabbages, where if well 
protected from wet and frost, they will continue 
to produce fine flowers all winter.

Or they may be planted in a dry warm CELLAR in 
the same manner as directed for cabbages, where 
they will also flower in winter; indeed I have 
had tolerable good flowers from strong plants.

Preserving Turnips, Carrots, Parsneps, Beets, and Salsafy.

Previous to the commencement of severe frost, you 
should take up with as little injury as possible, 
the roots of your turneps, carrots, parsneps, 
beets, salsafy, scorzonera, Hamburg or large 
rooted parsley, skirrets, Jerusalem artichokes, 
turnep-rooted celery, and a sufficiency of 
horse-radish for the winter consumption; cut off 
their tops and expose the roots for a few hours 
till sufficiently dry. On the surface of a very 
dry spot of ground in a well sheltered situation, 
lay a stratum of sand two inches thick, and on 
this a layer of roots of either sort, covering 
them with another layer of sand (the drier the 
better) and so continue layer about of sand and 
roots till all are laid in, giving the whole on 
every side a roof-like slope; then cover this 
heap or ridge all over with about two inches of 
sand, over which lay a good coat of drawn straw 
up and down as if thatching a house, in order to 
carry off wet and prevent its entering to the 
roots; then dig a wide trench round the heap and 
cover the straw with the earth so dug up, to a 
depth sufficient to preserve the roots 
effectually from frost. An opening may be made on 
the south side of this heap, and completely 
covered with bundles of straw so as to have 
access to the roots at all times, when wanted either for sale or use.

Some people lay straw, or hay, between the layers 
of roots and immediately on the top of them; this 
I do not approve of, as the straw or hay will 
become damp and mouldy, and very often occasion 
the roots to rot, while the and would preserve them sweet and sound.

All these roots may be preserved in like manner 
in a CELLAR; but in such a place they are subject 
to vegetate and become stringey earlier in 
spring. The only advantage of this method is, 
that in the CELLAR they may be had when wanted, 
more conveniently during winter, than out of the field or garden heaps.

Note. All the above roots will preserve better in 
sand than in common earth, but when the former 
cannot be bad, the sandiest earth you can procure must be dispensed with.

Celery, Endive, and Cardcons

Continue during the early part of this month to 
blanch your Celery, endive and cardoons, as 
directed in the preceding months; but when the 
severe frosts approach, they must be preserved 
therefrom, either in the following or some other 
more convenient and effectual manner.

Every third row of the celery may be suffered to 
stand where growing, opening a trench on each 
side of every standing row, within six or eight 
inches thereof, for the reception of the plants 
of the other two rows, which are to be carefully 
taken up with as little injury as possible either 
to their tops or roots, and planted in those new 
trenches, in the same order as they formerly 
stood. The whole being thus planted, three rows 
together, they are to be earthed up near the 
extremities of their leaves, and as soon as the 
frost becomes pretty keen, in a very dry day 
cover the whole with straw, and over this a good coat of earth.

When this plan is intended, the celery should in 
the first instance be planted in rows, east and 
west, so that when the whole is covered for 
winter use as above, the south side, especially 
if protected a little with straw, &c. may be 
easily opened to take out the plants when wanted for use.

Or if you have the convenience of a deep 
garden-frame, you may almost fill it with fresh 
sand, and then take up and plant therein, so 
close as nearly to touch one another, a quantity 
of your best and largest celery, and so deep as 
to be covered within five or six inches of their 
tops; place on yeur glasses, immediately, and 
suffer neither rain or water to reach the plants, 
except a very gentle shower, occasionally, in warm weather.

When severe frosts set in, lay dung, tan, leaves 
of trees, or other litter round the sides and 
ends of the frame, and cover the glasses with 
mats, be. sp as to keep out the frost. By this 
means you can have celery during winter in the 
greatest perfection and as convenient as you could desire.

Or celery may now be taken up when dry, well 
aired, and planted in sand in a dry CELLAR, in 
the same manner as directed for planting it in 
the frame; observing, in either case, to lay up 
the stalks and leave neat and close, and to do as 
little injury to either as possible.

The beds of celery which were planted as directed 
in page 433, should, in the early part of this 
month, be earthed up to within six or eight 
inches of the tops of the plants, tnd on the 
approach of hard frost, additionally earthed to 
the very extremities of their leaves; then lay a 
covering of dry sandy earth on the top of each 
bed, the whole length, so as to give it a 
rounding; on this, place a coat of dry straw, 
drawn and laid on advantageously to cast off the 
wet, and of a sufficient thickness to effectually 
resist the frost; after which cut a trench round 
the bed to carry off and prevent any lodgement of 
water. Here you can have access to your celery, 
and it will continue in a high state of 
preservation during the whole winter and early spring months.

Endive may be preserved in a frame, or CELLAR, as directed for celery.

Cardoons may be preserved either in sand in a 
CELLAR, or by banking up a sufficiency of earth 
to them where they grow, and covering the tops, &c. with straw or long litter.

N. B. All the above work must be performed in dry 
weather and when the plants are perfectly free 
from wet, otherwise they will be very subject to rot.

Forcing Asparagus

This is a very proper time to begin to force asparagus in hotbeds

You should now, previous to the setting in of 
hard frost, cover the asparagus-beds, containing 
the plants which you intend to force during the 
ensuing months, with as much straw, or light 
litter of some kind, as will prevent the ground 
from becoming frozen, so that you can take up the 
roots with convenience and without injury when 
wanted. This method is preferable to taking them 
up and depositing them in a CELLAR, in sand or 
earth, which is practised by some gardeners.

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Posted: 08 May 2013 03:56 AM PDT
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