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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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e with Messrs. Lane; agreat many trees of it are planted. The fruitis large, ovate, very late, and excellent. Anotherinteresting tree was a small one of what istermed Rivers Early Damson—probably EugeneFiirst—Laden with fine fruit, and quite ripe, someweeks in sidvance of all other Damsons ; a veryvaluable acquisition for late districts. Mentionmust also be made of the Farleigh or CrittendenDamson, which is cultivated largely. IIow verycharming the little trees arc, laden with the dense crop, and amongst other sorts may be mentioned LordSufifield, Stirling Castle, Grenadier, Lord Derby,Lord Grosvenor, New Mawthornden, Warners King,and Jolly Beggar as being specially good. Celliniand Dumelows Seedling, such excellent Apples inmost places, have here proved most unsatisfactory. Pears are not yet largely represented, but somevery fine examples of Durandeau, Madame Treyve,and Souvenir du Congrcs were noted, the latter espe-cially line. Filberts arc very largely grown as an intermediate
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grown and worthy. Pershore, a very avourite Wor-cestershire yellow Plum, is largely grown, and here,as elsewhere, a most abundant bearer. Of later varie-ties. Autumn Compote was very promising, as alsoBelle de Septembre and Sandalls, one of the latestvarieties grown. Of newer varieties, Rivers Late, apale, medium-sized, round fruit, promised well.Another promising variety is named Late Prolific.Early Transparent, Blue Prolific, a seedling ofMr. Rivers, somewhat resembling a large andvery fine Damson, was very conspicuous, andexcellent in quality. Grand Duke, the lastnew variety sent out by Mr. Rivers, is appar- Fig. 75.—viguiera rigida. (see p. 396.) clusters of this pretty ruit!—the crop is somethingextraordinary. Apples occupy the second place, although theymay probably be fully more valuable. The mostremarkable variety is Lanes Prince Albert. Thisis to be met with all over the orchard, and every-where every tree is laden with large and fine fruit.It is not particularly showy, b

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