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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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admired at both places.The species is described in our volume for 1870, p. 104. March 12, 1881.) -pf^E GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 337 M. Lindens Introductions.—In the cur-rent number of the niuslration Horlicolc M. Lindencommences the enumeration of all the plants intro-duced by him or his collectors since 1S45. Af. Lin-den himself, it will be remembered, travelled for tenyears in the forests of South and Central Americawhen travelling was not so common an affair as it is through, and the total height was 12.6 metres (ametre = 3 feet 4 inches about). The Man<:f.i.-i-i,y.—Mr. E. A. Fitch, in a recent number of the Entomologist, has described theinsect whose grub has lately been so injurious toMangel leaves, into which it mines and cats out the stated that it was only in shape that the fruits varied,the taste and perfume being in all cases that of theApple. Whats in a Name ?—A good deal ap-parently, for in a German periodical wc find aIetunia called Inimitable nana, compacta, grandi-
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Fig. 65.—ODOXTOGI.OSSUM odoratum. (see p. 336.) now. The list begins with Palms, alphabeticallyarranged, and comprises no less than 228 species. The Chinese Arbor-vitve.—It appears from the Monatsschrift of the Berlin HorticulturalSociety that this is one of the most serviceable treesin Central Asia. Herr Koopman, writing from Mar-gelan, in Turkestan, reports a specimen whose trunkabout 18 inches from the ground measured 4.64metres, the height of the stem to the lowest branch1.85 metre; the head of the tree measured 11.5 metres substance. It is a fly called by Curtis Anthomyabetce, and is not usually so destructive as it proved tobe last year. Apples and Pears.—M. Carriisre gives in a recent number of the Revue Ilorticolc figuresof an Apple which produces on the same tiee andeven from the same spur fruits, some of which havethe true depressed-globose form of the Apple, whileothers are Pear-shaped. The tree grows near Rouen,and was inspected by M. Carriere himself. It is flora. W

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