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 448
in. wide, place round thisbed, stones or bricks about 6 in. high, and as nearly level asyou can with convenience, fill the within space, and about an inchabove it, with compost in which there is a fourth gravel orsmall stones. Around the whole bed place your plants 6 in. F F 3 438 On the… … the same compost, and plant as for the first row of plants.Proceed thus, stratum super stratum, until you have raisedyour bed about 3 ft. high, which will give you six rows ofplants around your bed and one row at the top. The advan-tages of this bed are as follows: — A much larger quantity ofplants…
