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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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grass,this he broke up deeply, and having an abundanceof vegetable refuse at hand he burnt it, andadded a good dressing of the ashes to the soil,trusting rather to artificial manures than to crudefarmyard material. Seeing that he has had theland under cultivation for some three years only,he is gradually forming a soil that appears tosuit Daffodils and Tulips remarkably well, as canbe seen by their fine development. Of the newerDaffodils he is forming good breadths of MadamePlemp, Madame de Graaff, Glory of Leyden,Princess Louise, Mrs. Camm, &c. The morepopular standard varieties he grows largely, andhe computed that though practically a youngbeginner, he had some 45,000 bulbs of Daffodils;a bed of 3,000 Sir Watkin was in the finestcharacter when I observed it. Asked which he considered the best varietiesfor market and decorative purposes, he namedthe long trumpet section, Empress, which heprefers to Horsfieldi, as possessing much moresubstance, and also because it stands better;
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Fir. 131.—GIANT STOCK EXCELSIOR: FLOWERS WHITE. (From Messrs. W. Eull .t Sons Establishment.! See Report of the Meeting of ti.e Royal Horticultural Societj- of May IP, p. 33S, in our issue for May a:i, 1903. THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE, (May 30, 1903. Emperor, Princess Ida, a pretty variety, having alarge trumpet for the size of the bloom ; Maxi-mus, Mrs. Walter T. Ware, a handsome bicolor,which Mr. Brown thinks will become verypopular in the market; Madame de Graaff, andQueen of Spain. Of the smaller-cupped varieties.Sir Watkin, C. J. Backhouse, with its richly-coloured cup; Barri conspicuus, Flora Wilson,Duchesse de Brabant, Frank Miles, which Mr.Brown regards as the best Daffodil grown fortable decoration, as it stands up stiffly, and as heremarked always looks you in the face;Minnie Hume, Mrs. Langtry, Queen Bess, andStella superba. Of the small-cupped varieties,he thinks highly of Agnes Barr, Vanessa, andPoeticus ornatus. Mr. Brown is in favour of early lifting, thatis, as soon as

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