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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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and of potashthey contain, and on their judicious admixture.Cultivators with special knowledge of thequalities of their soil and of the requirements ofparticular plants will, of course, prefer to maketheir own preparations in conformity with theirown requirements. As to the actual value of the ingredients wehave alluded to, that, of course, varies accord-ing to circumstances, but we may take 6d.a pound as a fair average value for small quan-tities, such as would be bought at retail prices—wholesale, of course, they would be very muchcheaper. A fair sum must also be allowed forthe cost of preparation, and for the skill andintelligence brought to bear in their admixture.It would be invidious on our parts to com-ment on the individual manures in use by horti-culturists, but with a view of assisting them intheir selection we have briefly referred to thegeneral principles applicable in this case, andwe propose to give, from time to time, the January 29, 1881.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. H5
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^^^\ Fig. 26.—SALVIA iiovevi, (see p. 146.) 746 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. January 29, 1881, results of an analysis of various manures boughtby us in closed canisters or bottles, retail, inthe ordinary way of business, and which will besubmitted by us to a competent chemist foranalysis. It will be interesting to comparethese analyses with the similar ones givenby Mr. MACADAM (who, however, does not saywhat were the manures he dealt with, but onlyrefers to them by number), and to study theircomposition with reference to the general prin-ciples already referred to. Salvia Hoveyi (fig. 26). — We have already alluded to the beauty and distinctness ofcharacter of this plant, as grown by Mr. Cannkll,from whom the specimen here figured was derived.It has something the aspect of S. splendens in ilsfoliage and general character ; but the flowers aieblue-purple, and the calices dark purple, so that itmight be regarded as a purple form of S. splendens.Mr. HovEY has stated in our columns that i

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