This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...them. Cross supports of string may be passed back and forth between these two leading wires. When the clumps are isolated and not in rows, individual supports are required to be provided. Stakes driven into the ground with a wire stapled to their tops furnish a good and cheap device. Perhaps the best, though more ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...them. Cross supports of string may be passed back and forth between these two leading wires. When the clumps are isolated and not in rows, individual supports are required to be provided. Stakes driven into the ground with a wire stapled to their tops furnish a good and cheap device. Perhaps the best, though more expensive, is a modification of Mr. Egan's device (Country Life in America, Feb., 1903), described by Professor R. T. Jackson in 1904, as follows: "Three iron rods three feet long are made of heavy wire one-quarter of an inch in diameter, an eyelet is bent in the top, and the rods are galvanized after they are cut and bent. A circular connecting wire of lighter weight, one-eighth of an inch in diameter and six feet six inches long, is passed through the eyelets and made secure by looping wire. Thus one can have the circular wire of full size, or reduced to any smaller diameter desired, and held in the reduced size by tying one end. Such supports are very inconspicuous, being practically invisible in a well grown plant, and have given satisfaction to several peony growers who have tried them. Disbudding.--Disbudding is only necessary with the albidora varieties, for it is only these which form more than one bud on a shoot. They often bear more than one bud, and sometimes as many as eight or ten on a shoot. With singles all are often left, and produce the spray effect, but doubles should be disbudded early before the side buds have had time to take much nourishment from the terminal bud. For cut flowers to be sold on the city markets, it is usually advisable to disbud. There is, however, a difference among varieties, for even among the varieties of albiflora we find cases where only one bud is formed, or where the side buds remain undeveloped. R...
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