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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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id extension in thedark ; because of course rapid growth in the absenceof the great plant builder and preparer of buildingmaterials, light, leads to depletion. l!ut provide thenecessary link or agent, light, and there seems no needfor any cessation of growth. Artificial light will,therefore, become the greatest time-saver in horti-culture. Horticulture already leads rather thanlags behind in the race against time. The want ofmore and brighter artificial light, however, hashitherto handicapped her heavily ; we therefore hailthe electric and other pure lights as among the chiefthings needed to en.ible horticulture to consummateher triumphs by ripening two or even three crops ayear instead of one. .Seeds, plants, are virtually infinitein number. Time to the longest-lived is but short;time is, therefore, not only money, but additionalpleasure and innocent luxury to millions ; and if theelectric light will give us double crops it will largelyaugment our national wealth, and greatly enhance
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Fig. 105.—plan or carpet-ueds at chelsea. (see p. 616.) second-hand for horticultural purposes. When a boyI remember seeing a large tin reflector that had beenused at Methven Castle, in Perthshire, for augmentingor intensifying the solar light on a Pine-stove. It wasout of repair at the time I saw it, but it had revolvedon an axis so as to collect as many rays of the sun aspossible at every hour of the day, and to bring them tobear on a Pine-stove. If I remember rightly a Mr.Bisset was gardener at the time this contrivance wasin use, and if he, or any one who lived at the time ofthe solar reflector is now alive, a detailed account ofit could hardly fail to be of interest. No doubt itwould be possible to thus increase, to a great extent,the intensity of solar light, and could some simplemeans be adopted for this purpose during the lateautumn, winter, or early spring, considerable benefitniight be derived from the use of reflectors. Butunfortunately, just when light is most needed for

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