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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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and oil presses and grainpounders are made of it, and it is used for building the flat-roofed houses of the Deccan. Its branches,covered with long thorns, are invaluable for fencing material; thrown loosely down on the boundary line of a field they come into use at once as protectors to flowers are more like those of the Orange. As we hope to give a figure of this very interesting fruit in afuture issue we defer further notice of the plant at present, merely stating that Mr. Garnier describesthe fruit as superior to any tropical fruit he has ever tasted. It would probably succeed in an orchard-house in this country, and would be a valuable introduction into many of our colonies. We congratulate Mr. Bull as the fortunate introducer of this plant,and Mr. Garnier on his success it fruiting it. Writing on the cultivation of Eucalyptus GLOBULUS in Kanara, one of the forest officers says :— There is one thing that may be said in its favour, and that is, that if found successful, the people would
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Fig. 74.—interior of the laboratory at Rothamsted. economic, and geographical botany. The class willbe held every Friday evening from 8.15 to 9.45 *The instruction will be by means of class lectures, illustrated by diagrams and the use of the microscope. A constant reference to living specimens will be made, and these botanically described, with aview to impart a useful training in precision of expression, and to facilitate an acquirement of technical language. At the yearly Government examinations all students who are placed in the firstclass receive Queens prizes: efforts will also be madeto procure the offer of a local prize for the best worked paper in the examination of 1878. Mr. Newlyn is the teacher, and in view of the admirable training botany well taught affords, as well as from its immediate advantage especially to young gardeners, we wish Mr. Newlyn a large and appreciative class. the crops, and are green and effective so long as the crops are on the ground. Its pods provide f

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