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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ation— a characteristic of plants of similar habit fromsimilar climates; fourteen plants, however, aregrowing from this source, (To he cffniinued.) situated, there it must remain since it cannot beremoved. Where existing evils cannot be cured, thenext best thing to do is to prevent others fromoccurring, and this, as applicable to the subject inhand, can only be done by attention, care, and vigi-lance on the part of the planter in all future opera-tion?. The style and selection of the mansion,formation of the ground, exposure, quality, and con-dition of soil, and many other things have to be dulyconsidered in selecting and disposing of trees for orna-mental and pleasing effect. The following are a fewof the many points for consideration which theplanter may do well to consider in laying oft thewoodlands of an extensive and splendid domain. Now is the time when the effects of trees on thelandscape should be considered, for I see no goodreason why the uncertain flicker of an autumn day
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Fig. 15.—THE FLOWER GARDEN AT CLIVEDEN, AS SEEN FROM THE TERRACE FRONT. (SEE P. 6g.) will be sent to India as soon as the state of theweather permits. The stock of Castilloa elastica, brought last yearto Kew by Mr. Cross, has been propagated asrapidly as possible, and plants have already been dis-tributed to Africa (West Coast), Ceylon, and Java.Dr. Thwaites reports that of thirty-one plants trans-mitted to him twenty-eight have arrived in perfecthealth, and have thriven vigorously. A plant to which I alluded in my last report,and which is to be found in some Continental andEnglish gardens under the name of Castilloa elas-tica, proves under cultivation at Kew (although pos-sibly a species of Castilloa) to be certainly distinctfrom that plant both in the form of the leaves andin the habit. Along with the Heveas Mr. Cross brought seedsand plants of an undescribed Rubber tree, which fur-nishes the *Ceaia scrap of the English market.The export of this has been reckoned at one Forestry.

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