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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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ofthing among hardy plants that merits praise and isboth useful and effective. The Phloxes are marginedby scarlet Pelargoniums, Solanum marginatum, andDactylis glomerata variegata. The serpentine beds adorned with a single specimen Palm, foliage plant orsome other striking object. The aim is evidently tointroduce as much variety as possible compatilile withthe nature of the ground and in keeping witii the cha-racter nf the trees and shrubs that are retained aspermanent objects. One of the raised circles struckme as being very good; the centre plant, Araliapapyrifera, was surrounded with Hydrangeas andmixed Verbenas, and edged with Pelargonium Tilaniaand Salvia argentea, a splendid dwarf white-leavedplant for edging large beds or borders. Next to thisis a long curving bed of Wigandia caracasana,having a groundwork of mixed Petunias and LantanasFaviola and speciosa, and edged with PelargoniumManglesii and scarlet Tropaiolums. Leaving a clumpof Bambusa Metake anil a fino Copper Beech on
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Fig. S3.—the laureates garden, freshwater, (see p. 268.) habit, but rather difficult to keep within bounds, ishere well managed by cutting it down, which causesit to branch away into a comparatively dwarf-growingshrub, and renders it more useful and handsome inappearance. Here also is a grand bed of Polymniagrandis, mixed with a rich dark variety of Heliotropeand Agapanthus umbellatus, having a band of varie-gated Pelargoniums and blue Lobelias, and an edgingof Sempervivum tabul^forme set in a carpet ofHerniaria glabra. Then comes a variety of beds o( Coleus, in a ground-work of Sedum acre elegans, a large plant of Poly-podium cuspidatum as a dot plant, and an oval plantedwith Cannas in variety. Pelargonium Mrs. Schwindand Funkia undulata variegata. Several Palms dottedin grass, and others in groups give sufficient relief tothe high colouring of many of the carpet-beds andflowering plants. Nor must I forget to describe a come next in order, the circular shaped extremities otthe figu

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