JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Royal Hoetioultural Society. 



Vol. XXXVIII. 1912. 

 Pabt II. 



TENDER PLANTS FOE A WAEM CORNER. 

 By R. Ibwin Lynch, M.A., V.M.H. 

 [Read April 2, 1912; Sir J. T. D. Llewelyn, Bt., V.M.H., in the Chair.] 



I. Inteoduotion. 



This is a subject of some novelty, perhaps, and I would therefore 

 point out that it concerns the cultivation of a great variety of tender 

 plants in the open air, under such conditions that they often succeed 

 much better than in plant-houses and can always be seen to better 

 advantage. It concerns also the saving of valuable space in plant- 

 houses. 



We all know that the largest plant-house never contains all we 

 want to grow in it. If - then we can grow some of our tender plants 

 in warm corners out of doors it practically equals an extension of our 

 plant-houses. Space is saved for much that cannot be grown out of 

 doors, and two blades of grass may be said to grow where one grew 

 before. Yet the strongest argument, perhaps, for the cultivation of 

 tender plants under suitable conditions out of doors is evident in the 

 fact that they often attain a much finer development than is possible 

 under glass and with far less trouble. It must be remembered, too, 

 that by utilizing our warm comers out of doors we may cultivate, if we 

 , wish, a host of ornamental and interesting plants that we could not 

 . expect to provide space for under glass. The very capacity of the garden 

 j itself is enlarged. 



1 All these considerations raise one question — ^What tender plants 

 I can be, or ought to be, grown out of doors, and what are the conditions 

 j under which they will succeed? The answer to that question, so far 

 \ as time allows, I have now to give, and I am sure you will be astonished 



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