The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 494
n scorerused by woodmen in marking timbertrees. {Jig> 123.) I ring many of ourshrubs and ornamental trees, to throwthem early into blossom, and to causethem to produce larger blossoms. I haveflowered the tulip tree at seven yearsfrom the seed-bed, and I have a very fineset of dwarf fruit trees… … to grow, in the month of January, from a 32 to a 12-sized pot, and with soil composed of equal without disturbing the ball portions of perfectly rotten dung, leaf mould, river sand, andlight loamy soil, mixed together. I watered sparingly till itbegan to grow, and afterwards plentifully. One of my…