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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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subsequent careers. The International Potato Exhibition will very fitly wind up a busy season. After so muchhard work exhibitor? and horticulturists generally must these pages. But the gardens—what are they like ?Really, after one gets over the novelty of the idea thata soldier can keep a garden and cultivate it under thesupervision of a soldier, there is not much to wonderat. It speaks well for the future of gardening thatthe soldier—who has been no lounger in his time, andhas been too practical to be troubled with foibles—should take to cultivate plants and flowers in theevening of his days as a pleasure and as an amuse-ment. The gardens are 15 feet square and 144 innumber, with a corporal as head-gardener, who super-vises the work, and in case of repeated neglect takesa badly cultivated plot from the careless individual,and transfers it into the charge of a more industrioushorticulturist. It will thus be seen that a spirit ofemulation is encouraged among the rank and file of
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Fig. 67.—rustic bridge at freshwater, (see p. 340.) practitioner at Chiswick, and it is likewise the means3f carrying out one of the principal objects for which; he Society was established, viz., the encouraging oflorliculture. New College of Practical Engineer-ing.—A new college of practical engineering has)een opened at Muswell Hill, near London, underhe auspices of a number of the most eminent practicalengineers in the kingdom. The Principal of the col-ege is Mr. John Bourne, C.E., well known by hisvorks on the steam engine and other kindred subjects.The instruction given will combine the best theoryvuh the best practice, and the establishment of thispoUege will, it is expected, constitute an epoch inngineering history. One main distinction which Itseaching will present is that there will be no cramming,nd that everything taught will be permanently and need a substantial dish ot something eatable, andPotatos go some way towards making a meal. Theexhibition announced to be held

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