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Identifier: gardenerschronic15lond (find matches)
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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in-formed that the annual dinner of the HorticulturalClub will take place at the Club house on Tuesdaynext, the nth inst., John Lee, Esq., in the chair. Special Prizes.—Messrs. Sutton & Sons offer a series of prizes for competition, under variousconditions, at shows and meetings of the RoyalHorticultural Society to be held on June 3 and 28 ;August I and November 8 ; at the great show to beheld in August at Manchester, and at the Inter-national Potato Exhibition. Those who are interestedin such competitions should send to Reading for aschedule. /EcHMEA fasciata.—In this Bromeliadi which is now flowering in the Palm-house at Kew,the coloured bracts of the inflorescence are rathermore showy than the flowers themselves. The uprightscape is clothed with leafy bracts of a rosy-pink colour,and each of the pink blossoms in the dense, conicalhead is subtended by a narrow, spiny-edged, similarlycaloured bract considerably longer than itself. January 8, 1881.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 49
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Fig. ic—salvia iethei.lii. (see p. 51.) 50 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (January 8, iSSi. Orange Cultivation in Jaffa.—Oranges ire grown on a large scale in Ihe neighbourhood of Jaffa,where it is calculated as many as 400 Orange gardensexist. The irrigation is managed on a very primitivesystem: each garden has a well to which machines areattached turned by mules ; from three to four animalshave to be continually at work, day and night, for sevenmonths in the year. The average expense of workingand watering an orchard is estimated at about;^35 or£\o per annum. It is said that if irrigation could bedone cheaper it would have the effect of doubling thenumber of gardens in a very short time. About5000 men are employed daily in picking and packingOranges in boxes for exportation. Hexacentris mysorensis.—There are few finer or more desirable warm-house climbers than thisEast Indian Acanthad. In the Palm-house at Kewa fine variety of the species is now in flower. It hasstalked, ovate, sli

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