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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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of propagation which arises from thedifficulty often experienced in keeping thetubers through the winter, by saving seedearly in each autumn and sowing it at once.The seedlings almost invariably live through thewinter, and bloom well the following summer. Atthe end of the house a large AllamandaAndeTSonii trained to the roof bears scores offragrant blooms, and besides the general stoveplants a few specimens of the Cotton plant(Gossypium herbaceum) are grown. One houseis devoted to Malmaison Carnations, whichshare in the general appearance of vigour andhealth which characterises the gardening atEaston Lodge. In a long Peach case there arestill fine fruits of Lady Palmerston, a handsomeNectarine-flavoured variety. Attached to the re-sidence there is a walled kitchen garden, buta large quantity of vegetables are also grown ina two-acre garden some distance away. Applesbear good crops, but Pears,, except on the walls,are not so successful. September 27, 1913.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 223
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Fig. 79.—ALTHORP PARK, NORTHAMPTON, TEE RESIDENCE OF EARL SPENCER, P.C., WHERE THEIR MAJESTIESTHE KING AND QUEEN HAVE SPENT PART OF THE PRESENT WEEK. 224 TEE GARDENERS CHRONICLE- (September 27, 1913. HOME CORRESPONDENCE. U Jakdinier Solitaire.—I was in-^irested in reading the excellent article on Lon-don and Wise (p. 181) by Mr. Brotherston. Itis not easy to understand why The Retir dGardner should generally be thought to be atranslation oi one French book, lor as hevery rightly says it is a translation of•two books very important works in theirday and generation. The error may haveoriginated in the first place in the toohastv scanning of the title page, for a glanceinside the book would have easily disposed ofany question as to its composition. The titlepage of the first volume of The Retir d Gardnersays being a translation of Le JardinierSolitaire, while that of the second volume says, being a translation from the Sieur Louis Liger.Hence Liger has been credited with the author

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