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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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re general. Itshould begin in the village schools, permeatethe public schools, and be crowned by the highereducation at the Universities. This is whatwas done in Japan after their laborious studyof Western civilisation. In themselves thegrants for higher forest training at Oxford,Cambridge and Edinburgh are unimpeach-able, and there have been useful small grants ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS. NOTES FROM THE SOUTHGATENURSERIES. The penalty of success in the raising of hybridOrchids is that additional house-room has tobe provided from time to time for the accom-modation of the plants as they mature. This season, at the Southgate Nursery ofMessrs. Hassall and Co., the difficulty has beenmet by pulling down the long range of lofty,span-roofed houses and building on the sitetwo compact ranges of low spans similar incharacter to most of the other twelve houses ofthe block. Already one of the new houses isfilled with sturdy plants of Laelio-Cattleyas,Brasso-Cattleyas, and hybrids of Sophronitis
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Fig. 132.—ancr^cum recurvum : flowers white.(R.H.S. Award of Merit, November 18, 1913. See description on page 367, ante.) to some of the minor forest schools, while thefive Forest Advisors for England and the ForestDepartment promised for Scotland may doexcellent work. But there is this unfor-tunate feature about the one-sided foresteducational grants. To train a body ofhighly-educated foresters now seems likeputting the cart before the horse. Wherewill they find employment? Our £30,000,000worth of forest produce is still, alas, grownabroad ! We have very few private, corporate,or State forests of sufficient extent to give em-ployment to University - trained foresters.D E. Hutching. Cobham. Kent.(To be continued.) grandifiora. But a glance at the closely-packedseedlings of the first year in the seeding-house,three thousand of which have been placed intheir first single pots during the last fewmonths, and at the many thousands morethat are only waiting the turn of the year to beso

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