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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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wers, as well as to gardeners at home. St. Pauls Weather.—Professor Henry Attwell, of Barnes, writing to the Times onthe 26th inst., states that St. Swithins weather isstill a household word j but some among those whoenjoyed last Sundays sunshine may not know that in the name leptoclada is often erroneously given, is,according to M. Carkikre, a seedling derived fromR. sphLtroidea. It produces cones every year, andreproduces itself true from seed. The Scottish Seed and Nursery Trade Association.—The annual meeting of this Associa-tion was held in the Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, onthe 2ist inst., Mr. David Svme, Chairman, presid-ing. Mr. David Hunter, S.S.C, Secretary, read theannual report, which stated that the membershipnumbered forty-four, and that there was a balance dueto the Association of ^53 lo.t. 9//. In accordance withthe remit made to them .it the last general meeting, thecommittee and office-bearers had formed themselvesinto a court of arbitration to which members of the
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Fig. 31.—gunnersbury house, acton, the residence of the iiaroness de rothschild. (see p. 147.) ness, are in harmony with the wintry surroundings,and the powdery secretion is in marked contrast withthe sober bark of other wall plants close by. It pro-duces at the end of the summer berries of fair size,and of a deep orange-yellow colour, sweet and plea-sant to the palate. Letts Popular Atlas.—A good atlas is a desideratum for most people, and young gardenersespecially would find the advantage of consulting atrustworthy publication of the kind. A good atlas,however, is usually a very costly affair. We have onebefore us which promises to be inexpensive and verywell worthy the monthly expenditure of jd. Themaps are clearly printed, indicate the direction of thepolar and equatorial currents, the limits of ice, themain lines of telegraph, that to the Cape only just Western Europe the state of the weather at the Feastof the Conversion of St. Paul was for centuriesregarded as prognosticati

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