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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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bird was shot or cau°ht§Mh one Deil>g thought to be the particularthief, but the bulbs disappeared notwith-standing. The fact is, you may find no morethan one or two birds at a time about the garden,and without any apparent reason, another daymay count a dozen or a score. Moreover, I haveknown them leave alone some special plant forseveral years, and without warning commencewith as keen a relish as ever on the particulartit-bit. Though we have lost thousands of Tulipshere, they are only one plant out of many. Forinstance, it is almost impossible to grow Carna-tions in the open. Kept netted almost till fullygrown, they will attack the plants when unpro-tected, and leave nothing but the remains of thestems and the roots. The very latest object oftheir attention with us is Sweet Peas. Last yearthey started on a row of early planted stuff, pro-tected, as was thought efficiently, with a closeunderstocking of evergreens in addition to tallsticks, and in one day a row 120 yards long was
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Fig. 126.—TULirA te/estans (?). (see r. 324.) 326 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (May 23, 1903. hopelessly ruined. Later stuff could only begrown by affording the protection of wire-nettinglip each side of the row. They eat small fruits,too, with avidity, and on that account Strawberriesand Currants have to be netted while still quite^tnall to save the fruit. We can produce nogreen crop without protection. It is, of course,impossible to protect everything; if so the lessvaluable are rendered bitter by means of a com-position of quassia, soot, and soft-soap, but it isoiot efficient always. Reverting to bulbs, theplan adopted by Mr. Wolley Dod, which I alsohave adopted for some time, viz., deep planting,is undoubtedly the only safe method. I haveTulips flowering where pheasants are fed, and■where there are always a few going about, andnot a single bulb have they touched. In the•case of Crocuses too, where cornis were actually■eaten to the very last one, deeply planted oneshave been le

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