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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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es in a warm well lighted parlour with a tempi?display of good things laid out for dinner or supi,,and as we fell to as only a hungry schoolboy c,to whom indigestion is an unknown quantity, and -unwholesome has but a shadowy existence, it seer 1a very elysium, the only drawback being that we 1to plunge out into the cold again. We do thi ^differently now—we whirl along in the Flying Dul •man, warm and comfortable ; but I am bound to /the refreshment for the inner man provided at r trailway stations falls far short of that provided in th - * Sarcantkus Jlexns, d. sp.—Aff. Sarcantho panicu .Lindl.: foliis ligulatis obtu^is bilobis, v.ilde coriaceis ; panifractiflexa, plunllofa ; sepalis tepatkqae litntatis ubtuse aci ■labelh laciiiiis lateralibus liuearibus bideotatis abbrevi; .lamina mediana hastato triangua, calcari amplissimo co amice exlus sulcato impresso, bene bilocnlari, callo in basi columna panduralo basi puberulo. H. G. Rchb f. The Gardencri Chronicle (October 15, i88ia
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Fig, 91,—nepenthes rajah : the young and the otfi mi, iiM; size; colour, deep crimson, (see p, 492.) 494 THE GJkDENEkS CHkONlCLE. (OctOEER 15, 1881. days. It would almost seem as if the hospitablecharacter of the house had clung to it, for no one whonow visits the Cranston nurseries but has found itsdoors wide open to receive them. Close by the houseis a magnificent Cedar—and, indeed, there are manythings of much interest, but over these I must notlinger. Roses brought me to the place, and of l\osesonly shall I have, then, to tell. Close behind wherethe Cedar stands is the house for Tea-scented Roses,and I think I may safely say that it is without anequal in any part of the world ; and when in April orthe early part of IMay it is in full bloom, it must beindeed a sight fit for the gods—a sight which I hopeto see. It is 140 feet long by 22 in width ; along bed runs down the entire centre, in whichTeas and Noisettes are planted out as standards,half-standards, and dwarfs, while th

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