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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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orm of the Dusty Miller. I haveprobably some twenty varieties, single and double,but the earliest to bloom, and in all probabilitythe deepest yellow of all, is a variety I obtained rative purposes in their plant-houses. It greatlysurpasses in beauty, freedom, and colour, suchvarieties as Celtic King, Alexandra, and GoldenQueen. There is little or no meal on the foliage,which possesses a good deal of individuality.Another excellent yellow-Auricula for pot culturebears the rather inexpressive name of Mrs. Davis.It has finely mealed erect foliage, a strong grower,the flowers pale yellow, but more nearly approach-ing the florists Buttercup in quality. Celtic Kinghas mealed foliage, but Alexandra unmealed;both have long styled flowers, which operates torob them of that more perfect expression seen ina thrum-eyed flower. Apart from the preferenceshown by the florist for thrum-eyed flowers, theblooms possessing this quality are certainly moreartistically correct; and it is possible to under-
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FlG. 103.—ALSOPHILA SANDEKI, NEW TREE-FERN, SHOWN AT GHENT BY MESSRS. SANDER AND SONS.(See Report of Ghent quinquennial, p. 266) which this year almost hide the branchesfrom view; its leaves, although the tree maybe termed persistent, are at the time ofwriting much thinner than after the springgrowth. This sparsity of foliage, which is morenoticeable this year than is generally the case,may account for the heavy crop of flowers. Inaddition, however, the seed-vessels of the pre-ceding summer hang in eardrop - like fashion,sometimes singly but more frequent in threes,and even fours, like some Pea-pods; but dif-ferent, in that each seed is placed in a separate•cell, each end compressed and rounded in a toughjacket. In size, the seeds are like Peas, rathermore oval-shaped, and germinate quite freely ifsown when ripe. Edwardsia microphylla, and also E. inacro-phylla, &c, are all well worth growing, thefoliage alone being throughout the summerlight and feathery, and a delightful gre

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