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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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leaves on the pages of Naturetracings of the advance it is ordained shall bemade, will presently write down the clear linesof new forms of beauty as a heritage for thosewho are working for and waiting patientlythe time when fulfilment will give place toprophecy and prediction be lost in certaintyand possession. The coloured plate issued with the presentnumber was drawn by Mr. FiTCH, from speci-mens grown by Mr. R.\PI,EV, when gardener toRohert Hudson, Esq., of Clapham Common.Mr. Rapley is now gardener to J. Brand,Esq., Bedford Hill House, Balham, at whichplace he has now in flower a very fine col-lection. The Single Pink Thorn.—This is a sin-gularly pretty and effective tree for spring bloomingin forecourt gardens, and is not only well adapted forthe suburbs of towns, but should also be largelyplanted. It is very free indeed, and the colour singu-larly bright and effective. When well established itgrows freely, and the modern jobbing gardener, who THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE.-Mw nq, li
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Fig. I20.—CAI.rEOI.ARIA CRVSTAI. PALACE. 690 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (May 29, 1880. above all things believes in and carries into practicethe notion that the round form is the most natural inbushes and trees, clips away at it with his shears inautumn, and makes the mop-head his ideal of beautyin outline. If he would only permit the tree to grownaturally, and be satisfied with simply cutting bacUinto proper bounds all exuberant growths ! Close bythe spot where we are now writing there are two ofthese trees, one of which was cruelly trimmed backwith the shears in November, and is now destitute offlowers ; the companion tree was happily operated onby another gardener, and he contented himself simplywith cutting out the gross shoots. This tree is nowdensely laden with trusses of bloom of the most cheer-ful character, and is the admiration and envy ofpassers by. TIae doul)le Pink and double crimsonforms are most effective also, but for picturesqueeffect the single form can hold its own

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