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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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h notequal to the anticipations formed when in blossom,the crop of many kinds of fruit will be an averageone. Cherries and Plums in most places are short,although a few good orchards can be seen. The coldeast wind, varied by hot sunny days and long con-tinued dry weather, has brought a species of blight,more especially in the Apples and Cob-nuts, whichhave suffered greatly from maggot. The late rainshave improved the appearance of the foliage, and willrenovate the trees for another year. But althoughApples have suffered from these numerous evils, therewill be, in many places, a good crop of some sorts.Cob-nuts will not be plentiful, although many morethan last year. Many plantations have beenswealed by the winds, so that it almost appearsthey cannot bear next year. Gooseberries have suf-fered from caterpillar, but still there will be a faircrop. Currants, especially the red ones, have run,but there will be a remunerative crop in many parts. TheGardeners Chronicle,) fjunc 25, i8i I I 3
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Fig. 14?.—a, sarracf.niv chei.soni, riTCHERs reddish-iUrple; B, sarracenia purpurea, pitchers deep purple, (see p. S17.: 822 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (June 25, 1881. Strawberries are short. Looking at the fruit crop allround, it will be much better than last year, but willnot fulfil the promise of the spring blossoming. The Cork Oak.—The-house and grounds at Ealing, once occupied by li.R.H. the Duke ofKent and by Her Majesty when a child, have latelybeen sold by a Land Company, and the grounddivided into eligible building plots. The ground waswell planted with clumps of trees, judiciously dis-posed by some one who knew his business. The treescomprise Turkey Oaks, various of the less commonspecies of Elm, Crataegus, &c., and amongst them is aCork Oak, measuring at 4 feet from the ground about5 feet 4 inches in girth. North of Scotland Horticultural Association. — Mr. Sim, Gateside, Strachan, re-cently read a paper before this Society on the cultureof wild plants, in which he

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