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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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g to have the plant In Europe. M. EdouardKlaboch has sent It, and I have no doubt It will soonmake Its dclmt in a big room not far from the Gar-deners Chronicle office. B. G. Rchi. f. (We areafraid not yet. Eds.) PERILS OF A BOTANIST. We are Indebted to Mr, George Maw for thefollowing graphic account of the dangers to which abotanist may be exposed even In the Ionian Islands.Mr. Maws many friends will join with us in con-gratulating him on the result. Landing from Corfu early on the morning of October28, I at once called on a gentleman connected with thecommercial community, to whom I had a letter of intro-duction, to make inquiries for accommodation. Thenceproceeded to the little hotel and breakfasted, but the28th being Sunday, I deferred my intended visit to theConsulate. After arranging with the hotel-keeper to obtain me ahorse and guide for a botanical excursion in the Islandon the following day, I went out for a walk to the hill THE GARDENERS C-^/eOA^/CZ^.-December i, 1877, oevp-
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WW Fig. 132—ardisia olivebi, natural size; floveks eose-pink. 682 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (t)ECEMBEfe t, 1S77. south of Phaiiaromanie, overlooking the town, and,tempted by the beauty of the scenery and the interestingsurroundings, wandered on for two or three hours ,through vineyards and villages to Asproierakata, where,at a point about twenty minutes walk above the village, ;five young men surrounded me and commenced impor- ;tuning me for money, and immediately rifled two of ,my pockets with a demonstration of force which -j1 felt it unwise to resist, though no actual violence ;was exercised. The men at once hurried off with ;their booty towards the coast, and I retraced my steps jto the village, where the Demarch, or village mayor, 1suspecting that something had happened, spoke tome, and, with the assistance of a man who understooda few words of English and Italian, was soon madeacquainted with the circumstances. The Demarch andvillagers urgently desired me to remain the night, w

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