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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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ding Onions, are clean well-grown samples,and the yield enormous. No. 5 division has a range of cool lean-to housesplanted with Cherries, Figs, and Peaches, the latterbearing first-rate crops of good size and excellent rafter, .and such shoots too 1—like one-year-old Vinesfor fruiting in pots. Mr. Gilbert is of opinion that thecause of failure in many cases with this Rose is thatit is worked on old stocks which do not swell with thescion. The plant at Burghley is over eight years old,and is as healthy as the first year it was planted. The sixth quarter of the garden is double the size ofany of the others, with a walk up the centre and is avery prolific fruit garden of standard Pears, Plums,and Apples, of which Lord .Suflield and a varietycalled Barnack Beauty, which has not missed a cropfor eleven years, are considered the best. The lattervariety appears to make natural spurs and is cer-tainly a freer bearer than many other kinds that aremore commonly grown. The west wall is planted
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Vines for next years fruiting, of unusual size and firmness—thoroughly well-grown canes. In the same division are two vineries, one a Trebbiano-house, and the other planted with Hamburghs. The Ilamburghs are mostly cut, and the Ttebbianos are intended for the late autumn, and a grand show of Grape growing they are—large, well-formed bunches, and a crop so tegular that not a single blank is to be seen in the whole house. The south wall of the fourth division is occupied with Royal George, Violette Hative, and Princess of Wales Peaches, marvellous crops and : highly coloured. Not a spare foot is left unoccupied upon the walls in these gardens, if there is only room i to squeeze in a single Tomato plant, which always ) yields something, indeed a good deal at Burghley, i where certain varieties crop so well and ripen their fruits so satisfactorily. Upon the east wall Apricots and Pears are grown, and the north wall is stocked Fig. 77.—the cedars in burghley park. flavour. Figs ate a

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