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Identifier: gardenerschronic353lond (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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CharlesSharpe, and Charles Sharpe & Co., Ltd., forthe past 64 years, is retiring from active workin the management of the business, of whichhe is a member of the board of directors. Bicentenary of the St. PetersburgBotanic Garden.—The Imperial Botanic Gardenat St. Petersburg was founded in the year 1713,by Peter the Great, and is this year celebrating artificially coloured to resemble copper sulphate.An inspector of the Board recently purchasedsamples of blue vitriol for wheat dressing,which, upon analysis, showed an average contentof 12.5 per cent, of blue vitriol only, the re-mainder of the substance being green vitriolcoloured with Prussian blue. It should be bornein mind that the value of the material sold inthese cases is in proportion to the amountof sulphate of copper present, and ironsulphate can only be regarded as an adulterant.It is advisable, therefore, in obtaining sulphateof copper to demand from the seller a guaranteeof 98 per cent, purity, and to avoid purchasing
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Fig. 164.- -COLLECTIOK OF ORCHIDS EXHIBITED BY MESSRS. ARMSTRONG AND BROWN AT THE CHELSEA_SHOW.L(See Jtepoit in Issue for May 24, p. 330 ) been at Wisley for nearly six years, having pre-viously filled the post of gardener at Lyndhurst,near Haywards Heath. During the time Mr.Smith has been at Wisley he has enjoyedthe friendship of a large number of theFellows. We wish him every success in his newpost. Sale of Books.—At a recent sale of booksconducted at the Marchmont House (Duns), Mrs.Blackwells Herbal realised 10 guineas; Parkin-sons Theatrum Botanicum 2^ guineas; andParadisus £20. Gerards Herbal, 3rd edition,and several other rare gardening books were alsowell sold. Some forty representatives ofLondon booksellers were at the sale ; the libraryoontained many valuable books, of which therewere in all about 8,000. The house and estate its bicentenary. The fete will probably be heldbetween the 21st and 25th inst., but the exactdate is not yet decided. The festivities will lastfor two

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