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Excerpt from The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, Vol. 4: March, 1852 There is little doubt but that salt might be much more extensively em ployed by florists than at present. A very small quantity of salt added to the water in which flowers are laced, adds 'considerably to their duration. There are many bulbous-rooted o'wers which flourish best in the immediate vicinity of the sea. Mr. Edwin Greville remarked, in 1824, that some common salt applied at the rate of 16 bushels per acre to a portion of a bed of stocks, in hrs garden at Wyaston, in Derb shire, made them grow most decidedly stronger and finer, and bloom' muc more perfectly than those growing In the same bed unsalted. It is a common custom with the importers of exotic plants to dip cuttings' in salt water. Before the adoption of this plan, they almost invariably perished in the passage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.