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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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mon China and semi-double. They areso fragrant that when in full flower the bushquite scents the air round it. Most of the other double reds are of littleinterest save so far as they may be stepping-stones to something better. Perhaps Le Cid(Vigneron, 1908) is the best of them. It camefrom Conrad F. Meyer x Belle Poiterine. But there are three single reds I mustmention :— America (Paul and Son, 1899) is a dark crim-son lake, and I have been told it was sent overto the firm who brought it out in 1892 by Prof.Sargent, of Harvard University Botanic Some of the hybrids of R. rugosa with otherspecies are quite interesting; but I must dealwith them later. I have, however, perhapssaid enough to show that the Rugosas and theirhybrids are worthy of a place of their own inthegarden, and may yet repay the Tosarian who willbe ait the pains of careful hybridisation andselection. White Rose. PUYA CHILENSIS. The flowering of Puya chilensis out-of-doorsin the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, is the event
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Fig. 1.—puya chllensis flowering out-of-doors in Cambridge botanic garden. Gardens. It is the first in flower of all theRugosas, and has large fruits covered with longspines. Carmen (Lambert, 1906) is a good crimsonwith the least trace of mauve, but very con-stantly in flower and bright and attractive.However, it makes no fruits. Atropurpurea (Paul and Son, 1899) is perhapsthe mast attractive of all the singles except thewhite. The buds are deep blackish-crimson,opening to maroon-crimson flowers, and thefoliage a pleasing lightish green. Rubra, or Thunbergs type, and Regeliana,which is very like it, are of a rather ugly, pur-plish, or violet red. Souvenir de PierreLeperdrieux, a deep vinous, purple red, how-ever, is worth notice for its fine perfume. of its kind for the year in that garden. Almosteighteen years ago a small plant, kindly pre-sented by Mr. T. A. Dorrien-Simith, was re-oeived from the fine moss at Scilly. For threeyears it was grown in the Succulent House, andit was th

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