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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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NICOTIANA AFFI.NIS. J. Wolstenholme & Son, Grimes Street, Mill Street,Ancoats, Manchester. — Holly-wood and Box-woodlabels. Rev. H. Ewbank, St. Johns, Ryde. Isle of Wight,—Wood labels, with iron wire supports. These are paintedwhite, and a coat of black paint added, which, whenwet, is removed where the letters are required, in orderto show the white ground beneath. J. Wood, Woodville. the Spring, KirkstaU, Yorks.—Zinc labels, with galvanised iron wire supports. Walter J. Todd, 32, Angel Road, Brixton, S.W.—Wood labels, with wire supports. C. Yates, MorUake.—Zinc labels of various patterns ;ink for writing on same. S. Mount, Harbledown, Canterbury.—Painted ironabels, J. C. Turner, Salisbury Road, Blandford.—Zinclabels. J. Dowdney, i, Montpellier Villas, West Street, Croy-don.—Wood labels, with wire supports. Rev. C. WoUey Dod.—Iron and wood labels. There is also an iron label sent in by the Rev.H. N. Ellacombe, for the inspection of the com-mittee, though not in c

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