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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)
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slide is set to the required quantity the spikes, about 6 or 8 inches in length, are thicklystudded with pale rose and white flowers. They arevery useful for cutting, and have a very pretty effectin the garden. The superiority of Mr. Knightsvariety of the Laurustinus is also very marked, theflowers are larger, of a purer white, and the footstalksof the flowers are also much paler. This variety hasbeen named pyramidalis. Mr. Meehan states, in his American Gar-deners^ Monthly^ that while a frost on August 24 ORIENTALIS SEMPEEAUREA in pots, richly coloured,which have taken on a sheen not to be had in thiscountry at this particular time of the year. Theyhave been imported from Noroaandy, and probablyowe their bright colouring to the brighter skies andclearer atmosphere of that district of France. At the last meeting of the Linnean Society, Mr. Theselton Dyer exhibited a seed of Entadascandens, and one possibly belonging to CyathocalyxMaingayi, an Anonaceous plant, found in the intestinal
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Fig. 152.—the large walnut tree at mentmore. there is not the slightest variation in the successivequantities, and that so far its work is perfect. It isevidently inexpensive, as its construction is simple,and it is probable that the Messr?. Harrison willshortly place it in the hands of some suitable agent tooffer it to the trade, There is at present a large number of bushes of Erica codonodes in flower in Mr. Knightsnursery at Hailsham. This species, a figure of whichis given in vol. vii. n. s., p. 463, is a native of theSouth of Europe, and is quite hardy in favourablesituations ; some of the bushes are 3 and 4 feet highand as much across; they are now in full flower, and destroyed Dahlias and similar things in England,Dahlias, Honeysuckles, Scarlet Sage, and Pelargo-niums were in bloom, and bright-leaved Coleuses,and other things were still giving a charm to hisgarden at Philadelphia on November $. Says Mr.Meehan— There are many beautiful features inEnglish gardening which make

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