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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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urof the Raspberry and Strawberry. Once upon a timethis was looked upon as a British plant, but its claimsto native rank are not now accepted, Tobacco in Italy is said, by the Journal of Applied Science, to be a monopoly of the Italian Govern-ment, which buys largely Kentucky, Virginia, andOhio brands. Kentucky leaf makes all the Cavourcigars, or three-fourths of all cigars smoked in Ihepeninsula; Virginia leaf is manufactured into the straw cigars of Milan, and Ohio leaf turns out the Havana cigars somewhat after our own plan ofHavana fillers and Connecticut wrappers. There arein the kingdom eight principal manufactories, whichturn out 6,000,000 cigars daily. There is very littlecigarette or pipe-smoking. From the king to thelazzarone the whole nation smokes the Cavour.They cost only one half-penny. Esparto for Paper Making.—At a time when the supply of Esparto for paper-making is beingcalculated upon in view of its not very distant failure, The Gardeners Chronicle,) (May 14, i88r.
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Fig. 115.—sarracenia flowers: 3, 3a, s. flava ornata; 4, A, s. flava crispata ; 5, S. s. drummondi. (see p. 628.) 634 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (May 14, 1881, the returns of the export of this substance fromTripoli proves the probability of its rapid exhaustion.47,144 tons is no small total, and the value, Zl8S,576,is a good round sum for one article ; indeed Espartofigures as the most important item in the exports fromTripoli during the year 18S0. For the purpose ofeconomising space on board ship, so as to reduce thecost of carriage, we are told that the first steam-pressfor pressing Esparto fibre into bales has been intro-duced into Tripoli by a mercantile firm. Hithertothis grass has been pressed by simple hand-presses,which only work imperfectly and slowly, producinglight bales, for which high freights are usually paid.It is said that should this press succeed others willbecome general. Fritillaria recurva. — Some good ex-amples of this rather rare Californian plant are nowin f

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