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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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n most districts itmakes a first-rate greenhouse plant, and infavoured localities, such as Devonshire or Corn-wall, it grows and flowers well out-of-doors, as PRICES OF TIMBER IN SCOTLAND. From returns to hand the home timber tradein Scotland would not appear to be in a veryflourishing condition. As usual, the timber ofScots Pine is plentiful, vast quantities havingbeen uprooted by recent gales, and thus, in somedistricts at least, causing a glut on the market.In Perthshire the demand has been good andprices quite equal to those of recent years; buthere again large quantities of Larch and ScotsPine have been levelled to the ground, andthus suddenly thrown on the market. Larchhas fetched lOd. to Is., Spruce and Scots Pine5d. to 6d., while Douglasii brought 8d. percubic foot. Ash is in demand at Is. 3d. toIs. 5d. per foot, but Oak sells at a lower figure,usually about Is. per foot. In Aberdeenshirethe industries of box-making and barrel-makinguse up a quantity of wood, and large numbers
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Fig. 73.—clematis indivisa lobata in a devon garden. (Photograph by Wyndham Filzhcrbert. Zephyranthes macrosd?hon, Baker.—A beau-tiful pink flower as large as that of Z. carinata,which is perhaps the best of the genus and easyto grow in a cold greenhouse. Urceooharis Clibranii (Gard. Chron.,Sept. 23, 1899, fig. 86).—A reputed hybridbetween Eucharis and Urceolina aurea, and,though not so beautiful as either of its parents,a very free flowerer, and easy to grow in a coolstove. Hippeastrum hybrid between H. reticulatumand H. Ackexmannii pulcherrima. which wasraised by the late Sir Charles Strickland, and hasproved with me easier to grow than any othersof the autumn-flowering hybrids which havereticulatum as a parent. All these requirequite different treatment to the spring-floweringHippeastrums, and, though not so large andshowy, are to my taste on account of Itaedrautumnal flowering and lovely shades of colourat least as beautif ill. H. J. Elwes, Colcsbornc. may be seen from the s

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