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English: . A red annual sunflower

Identifier: gardenerschronic354lond (find matches)
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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s, the young plants will mot sufferas those in pots. As to catch crops betweenthe newly-planted border, Onions and Shallotsare suitable. Plenty of light and air are essen-tial to healthy plants and good flavoured fruit,And it would be interesting to hear from growers•who protect their fruit from birds with muslin Poterium obtusatum.—The few species ofPoterium hitherto cultivated have been of littlehorticultural value, and the genus is one from•which little has been expected. This newJapanese species, however, is a noteworthy ex-ception, and no more attractive border plant hasbeen introduced for many years. P. obtusatumin habit of growth differs but little from P.sanguisorba, but the flower scapes are of a de-lightful shade of carmine pink—a tint most un-common in herbaceous plants. It is a continuousblooming plant, throwing up several relays ofleafy flower-stems during summer and autumn.The flower-stems reach the height of about 4feet, are much branched, slender, and, if skil-
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FlG. 44.—THE RED SUNFLOWER.(R.H.S. Award of Merit, July 29, 1913.) in preference to netting. I prefer President toBritish Queen, notwithstanding the latter is theJbetter cropper. Royal Sovereign 16 not nearlyso good here as in gardens in southern counties..Elton Pine I would place before Givons LateProlific. Louis Gauthier is the most vigor-ous and heavy cropping variety I know.When I saw it in Middlesex the fruit -waswhite, but here it is tinged with pink; theflavour is good. Our next in vigour and pro-ductiveness is The Laxton, which took someyears to get accustomed to our heavy, clayeyJoa.ni. John Edwards, Sylfaen Gardens,Wehhpool. fully staked, present a charming and gracefulpicture. For the herbaceous border or for largegroups this plant will take a prominent place.It flowered for the first time in this countryin 1910, in the nurseries of Messrs. Barr andSons, who are to be congratulated on introduc-ing a plant of so much merit. The stock, I aminformed, is still small, but no d

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  • booksubject:Gardening
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