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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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e so notified in the catalogues ; as, forinstance, * O. pulchellum (qy. majus), or supposed were nearer fifty than fourteen. List year, again—thesmallest issue for some time—the number exceededforty. Professed authorities should be accurate, tt. Lilium cordifolium.—Seeing from the GardenersChronicle, page 51 of the present volume, thatLilium cordifolium is about to flower at Kew,probably for the first time in England, it may be ofsome interest to your readers to learn that in mynursery there are at present six plants of this Lily,throwing flower-stems. I remember that we had thisLily in flower in our nursery a long time ago, whenit was first introduced, but the plants which are nowabout to flower are much younger than the plant waswhich flowered here before. It is a general remarkthat in this country also Lilium giganteum is floweringin a younger state and more abundantly than usual,the flower-stems, however, are somewhat shorter thanotherwise. Among other rare Lilies which have
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j^^Mm^^€^^.^^y^-r^, Fig. 18.—VIEW in the pleasure grounds at Cliveden. cipale of Paris about 3900 tons of fruit were sold inthe hail(s of Paris during the year i8.;6. And duringthe same period about 2320 tons of vegetables, exclud-ing Potatos, were disposed of. The quantity ofPotatos is estimated at about 727 tons. The totalnumber of laden vehicles which arrived in the squareof the halles during the year was 594,574* During themonth of June the maximum number, 84,751, wasattained, and the minimum, 25,290, was in February. Naming of Orchids.^—Amateur Orchid culti-vators will, I doubt not, echo my complaint of theimscrupulous naming of Orchids by vendors atOrchid sales, and especially of a growing practice ofsending the same plants into the market underdifferent names. For instance, I and others havebeen imposed upon by Saccolabium curvifoliumluteum, which proves to be the same as was sold Hallii, or such-like. Buyers would then know whatthey were buying. As it is, we accept the u

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