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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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the way leads pastanother wonderfully clipped Yew hedge,with a perfectly curved face and level-topped finials, and on to the glass houses,where Carnations, Pelargoniums, Helio-tropes, Rickardias, Begonias, Nerines,Chrysanthemums and Cypripediums allflower freely; and so back to the Manorhouse, where on this side a large Magnoliagrandiflora still bears a few deliciousblooms—the last of the year. The houseborder has no definite boundary; theRosemary and Lavender bushes push out NEW OR NOTEWORTHYPLANTS. THE WAHLENBERGIAS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. (Concluded from p. 337.) II.—Perennial Specks (concluded). W. saxicola, A. DC. Monogr. Cam-pan. p. 144 (183C).—Plant 1-4 inches high, perennial. Leaves 8-12, all radical, in a lax rosette f-1 inch in diameter, sessile, i-1 inch long, 1-3 lines broad, lanceolate, spathulate-obovate or oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, slightly toothed or subentire, glabrous, green on both sides. Peduncles 1 to each rosette, 1-4 inches long, slender, erect,
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(Photograph by H. N. King. Fig. 128.—view in the gardens at huntercombe manor, maidenhead. great profusion, spreading around theRoses and Irises. Then come Daffodils,Primroses and Tulips, to be followed byevery kind of Iris that will thrive.Hemerocallis, Anchusas, Pseonies, Del-phiniums, Campanulas, Roses, and manymore plants all contribute to the floralpageant of the year. At irregular intervals the walls of thischarming garden are pierced by irongrilles, which admit of glimpses of theouter world, of the stately Wellingtoniatowering above the cool, green sward, andof the rock garden, where the plants areallowed to intermingle but not smothereach other, and where Chionodoxa lucillse over the gravel walk and encircle theMyrtles and the Magnolia fusca, which inthe summer perfumes the air with curiousClove-like scent. No description of Huntercombe could becomplete without mention of its veterangardener, my dear old friend, as Mrs.Boyle introduced him. Mr. Jesse Foulkwas previously at M

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