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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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they allow such barbarous mutilation to bedone on their premises without protest. Un-fortunately these are so far from being excep-tional cases that you can hardly pass down asuburban road without being shocked at suchfrightful barbarisms as we have alluded to. Isthis not a subject for local horticultural societiesto take up. Vkitcii MtiMORiAL PRIZES. — We may mention that the Trustees of the Veitch MemorialPrize Fund have voted a sum of ^50 to be offeredin ten /s prizes, each accompanied by a VeitchModal, at the Manchester International UorticuUuralExhibition to be held in August, 1881. CORRESPONDANCE BOTAXIQUE. — The eighth annual edition of this useful publication hasjust been issued. It comprises a list of Ihe institu-tions, periodicals, and societies devoted to the promo-tion of botanical and horticultural science throughoutthe world, together with an enumeration of the namesandaddressesofthose connectedwilh them. Vearatteryear there are necessarily changes in the contents ol
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Fig. 16.—easton hall, the seat 01- sir iiugii ciiolmelev, bart. (see p. S3.; Again, as to pruning—save the mark !—seewhat is done by the jobbing gardener, in theperfect assurance that it is for the benefitof the tree. In a forecourt garden facing a newstreet we are too often witnesses of a processanalogous to that of placing a basin on a manshead and then clipping his hair around theedge. In a little garden of this kind, wherethere are a pair of Laburnums, a pair of Almondtrees, a pair of Thorn trees, a round-headedAcacia, and a Cupressus Lawsoniana or two,we have lately seen the jobbing gardener cutthem all alike into a globular form. And allthis is done with the idea that it is goodfor the trees, as we learnt one day lately,when, on passing, we were unable to refrainfrom comment — we were intrusive enough A Thorny Path.—The pitfalls in the way of translators are but too numerous. Here is anillustration which we have lately met with. Theauthor, an American, was doubtless sp

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