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 484
is now in use, with great success, in the garden ofthe Horticultural Society. But the safest way to treat [all] the species ofAlstromer/a is to plant them in light loamy soil, in a border within aglazed pit, which is just heated enough to keep out frost in winter. Herethey will grow with great… … 472 Edwards*s Botanical Register. the sun at midsummer. Thus protected, they will perfomi all theirnatural functions as if in their native soil; and an abundance of food will besent downwards into the roots, which will thus be prepared, upon thereturn of the growing season, to send up new shoots…
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