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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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bridge . It flowered first in 1900, until that
time was supposed to be O. Engelmanni, but a
comparison with description immediately showed
this to be wrong. At Kew the plant was at first
supposed to be O. pseudo-Luna (see Gardener's
Chronicle, July 28, 1900, p. 64) ; but that species,
O. Engelmanni, but that it might be a form
of the variety cyclodes. A distinguishing name
was thus necessary, and since, for practical pur-
poses, it is quite distinct, I may safely pass over
the difficult question of true systematic position,
which can hardly be dealt with under the circum-
stances at present. My finest specimen is now
12 feet wide, 6 feet from front to back, and nearly
4 feet high. It was raised from cuttings taken
from an older specimen in 1S95, and it flowered
with the original in 1900. The older specimen
had been undisturbed for twelve years before it
flowered, but hot summers apparently affected
both specimens in the same way. At first only
few flowers were produced, but the number on
each specimen has increased each year from the
first.
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Fig. 42. —OPUNTIA CANTAEIGIENSIS IN THE BOTANIC GARDEN, CAMBRIDGE.

back of the vineries. About 1,000 Strawberries
are forced, and Royal Sovereign is the favourite.
The inevitable Chrysanthemums are not forgotten,
some thousand plants being grown.
Upon the day of my visit, Mr. Cole, the gar-
dener, completed his tenth year of service at
Swallowfield, and during that time he has seen
not a few changes. Still the changes in the
appearance of the gardens and grounds them-
selves have all been in the right direction—indeed,
it would be better to speak of them as " restora-
tions." Than Lady Russell, the mother of the
present baronet, few ladies are more keenly alive
to the desirability of not allowing the new
to swamp the old. Her ladyship's recently pub-
lished book, Swallowfield and its Owners, to which
I am indebted for much of the information here
given, voices the same veneration for the past,
and as long as she has a voice in the guiding of
the destinies of the estate, these time-honoured
features will be preserved. A. S. G.

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