CATALOGUE 



OF 



CONIFERS, AMERICAN PLANTS, ORNA- 

 MENTAL TREES, ETC, 



CULTIVATED FOR SALE BY 



ANTHONY WATERER, 



KNAPHILL NURSERY, 

 WOKING, SURREY. 



AMERICAN PLANTS. 



The Knaphill Nursery is the most extensive, as it is the oldest, 

 establishment in England in which the cultivation of American Plants 

 has been made a speciality. At the present moment its extent ex- 

 ceeds 200 acres, of which more than 60 acres are allotted to the 

 cultivation of American Plants alone. The beds and borders devoted 

 to this class of plants extend over miles in length, and contain the 

 largest quantity of the finest plants to be met with in this country, or 

 in Europe. A visit, which is earnestly solicited, will prove this to be 

 no mere assertion. 



In a general way, all American Plants may be said to delight in, 

 and to require, what is called peat soil, and it was at one time be- 

 lieved that they would not thrive in any other. Experience, how- 

 ever, proves the contrary, and it is now found that PJiododendrons, 

 the most important of them all, as well as other of the more vigorous- 

 habited plants, thrive in almost any soil that doe not contain lime. 

 In many sandy loams they grow with as much vigour and luxuriance 

 as they do in peat, and almost any loamy soil, free from lime or 

 chalk, may be rendered suitable for them by a liberal admixture of 

 leaf-mould, or any fibrous material, such as the parings of pasture 

 land. When the soil is poor, a moderate dressing of farm-yard ma- 

 nure may be occasionally applied with advantage. Cow-dung, in a 

 thoroughly decayed state, forms one of the best manures for these 

 plants. 



