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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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27). A slice acrossthe flower-stalk will levcal a very pretty arrangementof the air-can.ils, by which the stalk is traversedthroughout its length. probably feels justified in going a step farther andmay say, that while many new plants are put intocommerce that fail to answer the high expectationsformed of them, on the whole the new vegetables(which are in the main good selections) do not failto satisfy ; and this conclusion is somewhat borne outby the fact that nearly every variety of so-called newvegetables is favourably reported on by some cul-tivator in the columns of the gardening Press. Theestimate formed of these testimonials by the gardeningpublic is another matter. Aneximination of this trial of Cabbages showedthat certain types or varieties have a superiority overothers for their obvious good qualities. One of theearliest and dwarfest of the Cabbages is Little Pixie ;it takes up but little room and turns-in quickly, there-fore it is suited to small gardens. It is like the Ox-
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FlG, 127.—APONOGETON DISTACHYON. FLOWER AND LEAF NATURAL SIZE, TOLLEN GRAINS AND SECTION OF STEM MAGNIFIED, a distinct cusp, ; inch broad, bright yellow, withabundant small, claret-brown spots. Three longestfilaments nearly as long as the perianth Hmb ; anthersoblong, /. inch long; filaments subulate. J. G.Baker. APONOGETON DISTACHYON. Tms abominable appellation for a lovely plant maybe commended to Mr. Grindon as an exercise in pro-nunciation. Etyraologically the name is as barbarousas it is in sound. Such as it is, however, it must bepreserved, for there is none other, and any attemptto frame a new one in the vulgar tongue would resultin failure. Our object in calling attention to so old aplant is to recommend it for cultivation to many whodo not know its merits. The flower-spike splits intotwo divisions, along each of which are disposed intwo ranks, one on each side, the large pure whitebracts in whose axils nestle the small inconspicuousflowers. The flower-spikes are thrown up w

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