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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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hrive on comparativelydry soils which are wet enough for sessile Oaks,and that sessile Oaks will not grow on land liableto inundation, or in very wet, frosty localities.Last year I visited north-west Cumberland, fromLake Bassenfchwaite to Carlisle, and although I wet soil, and what is the nature of the subjacentrock, and the depth and constitution of the soil ?The gradient, aspect, and nature of the soil aremore important in this respect than the climate.With a steep slope facing from south-east tosouth-west, and a sandy soil, a very heavy rain-fall wiU not keep the soil moist enough through-out the growing season when transpiration isheavy, for pedunculate Oaks to thrive. On the hillsides near Chatsworth it is wetenough for sessile Oaks only, while fine peduncu-late Oaks grow on the heavy soil and more levelground near the mansion. The Chatsworth pedun-culate Oaks that have been felled are about100 years old, and have been stag-headed forseveral years, whereas healthy Oaks growing in
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HEPATICAS. The double-white Hepatiea has been deemedmore or leas mythical, so seldom is it seen. It isnot even mentioned in Nicholson, Bailey, nor inthe Kew Handlist, a pretty good evidence of itsrarity. At the last meeting of the Royal Hor-ticultural Society, a clump of it was shown byMiss Willmott, and drawn for us by Mr. Wor-thington Smith, who has illustrated in the marginof the illustration the single variety for purposesof comparison (fig. 89). In the Kew Index theHepaticas are all included under the genusAnemone, but those who lay stress on smallpoints of difference, as they have a right to do ifthey choose, will speak of Hepatiea trilobavar. In gardens they will, we suspect, always becalled Hepaticas. A. angulosa (fig. 88) differsprincipally in the foliage from the commonerforms. Fig. 89.—double-white jiefatica, and the single-flowered variety. PLANT PORTRAITS. Apple Newton Wonder —See Gardeners Chronicle,16a«. vol. li., p. 221. Garten Flora, March 1, t. 1514 DlSA KEWENSI

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