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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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t to the esta-blishment of Mr. Bull by the late Dr. Seemann.Specimens in fruit are now to be seen in the X-xxa^tat Kew. Citrus trifoliata.—At Kew this singular Japanese shrub has passed through the severe ordealof the winters of 1879-80 and iSSo-Sl withoutbeing in the slightest degree injured, and this, too, inthe open ground, with no protection of any kind. Atthe present time its rigid, leafless, shining greenbranches are studded with buds which will soon ex-pand into pretty Orange-like blossoms. In Japanthis shrub is much cultivated both as a garden plantand for fences ; it would certainly make a novel andinteresting fence for an English garden, and its sturdybranches, armed with formidable thorns, wouldenforce due respect. The trifoliate leaves are notfully developed until the end of June. The plant isfar from common, but in some nurseries it is grownas /Egle sepiaria, and in others under the totallywrong name of Triphasia trifoliata. April 30, 1881.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 569
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Fig, 107,—pieris Formosa : flowers porcelain-white, (see p. 568.) 570 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (April 30, 1881, Mackaya BELLA. — This lovely Acanthad is flowering freely in the Cambridge Botanic Garden,and with seven or eight flowers open on a raceme fewthings are more attractive. Some other Acanthadshave been very ornamental, among which may bementioned the old Aphelandra cristata, and Thyrsa-canthus rulilans, which has had pendent inflorescencesreaching the bottom of the pot. The Leeds Horticultural Society.— Successive seasons of unfortunate weather, culminatingin three days of rain last June, have, we learn, causeda succession of losses to the committee, that of last yearamounting to over .^400. Leeds has always been agreat horticultural centre, and a large number of goodplant-growing establishments exist in the Leeds dis-trict, and their exhibition of last June was one ofremarkable excellence and extent, so that it would be asource of deep regret to a very numerous body of

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