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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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y boat to the island from Cirkvenica. I wentright across the island, which consists of rolling, stony ground, in most places covered with scrub.Everywhere grows the usual green-floweredHelleborus, while the undergrowth was in manyplaces pink with Cyclamen repandum (hederse-folium). Some open, grassy patches wereliterally purple with Orchis morio, while 0.punctata and the huge 0. militaris were alsocommon. Of Irises I saw no trace until Ireached the centre of the island, and then onlyfound a few flowerless plants among the stones. which had run straight ahead for a foot or morewithout branching at all. 1 had seen the samething in a very similar position on Mount Veljun.On my return to Trieste I was taken by Dr.Marchesetti to see the botanic garden which hehas formed on the hillside above the town. Thespace is relatively small, but the limestonewhich is everywhere abundant has lent itself tothe construction of innumerable narrow terraces,in the pockets of which all the local plants find
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Fig. 155.—olearia chathamica : ray florets white, slightly tinted with mauve; disc purple. (R.H.S. Botanical Certificate on May 20, 1913. See page 357 ai te). Tlir foliage, however, leads me to suppose thatthey are the typical I. illyrica. From Fiume I also went up to the top ofMonte Maggiore and found Iris graminea grow-ing in open beech copses at about 3,000 feet. Theriant does not there make the dense clumps thatare formed in our gardens, but each tuft ofleaves stands apart, and I even found rhizomes congenial homes. My guide also told me of threelocalities near Trieste where I. illyrica is to befound growing wild. On Monte Spaccato I wandered for two orthree hours, and, though I found an amazingnumber of Orchis, a poeticus Narcissus, the darkpulsatilla-like Anemone montana, and evenSolomons Seal and Pseonies in flower, I could 3G4 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (May 31, 1913. find no trace of Irises. It seemed as though the■efforts of the Austrians towards reafforestationhad been fa

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