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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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deepblue when dry. Continental Vegetahles. — Those who may be desirous of testing the merits of such vege-tables as are served at Continental tables if hole withthe sorts grown in England have now an e.vcellentopportunity for doing so by obtaining Messrs. JamesCarter & Co.s newly introduced ContinentalCollection of Vegetable Seeds, The collection in- valuable a refuse, is one which might be adoptedwith advantage in this country. Can Mr. Fortuneenlighten us ? ■ The Severe Frosts in France.—The Socielt! Cenli-ale Xllorliiiillnre de Fraitee hasappointed a commission to ascertain the effects ofthe frost in December, 1S79, and to report thereon. Acacia iiomalopiiylla. — A series of the pods of this plant was shown by Mr. R. IrwinLynch at the meeting of the Linnean Society onFebruary 5, wherein each seed was attached by a verylong and bright red funicle, which is doubly foldedon the sides of the seed. Mr. Lynch offers the sup.position that^ the funicle, always detached with the
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Fig. 3S.—fruits of the malay peninsula, (see p. 203.) downy beneath. The pinkish (lowers are in tufts atthe ends of the branches, and are very fragrant. ItIS quite hardy, as witness some specimens recentlysent us by Mr. Boscawen in bloom, in spite of thesevere weather to which even in Cornwall it has beenexposed. The Commelynace/E.—At the Linnean Society, April 5, Mr. C. 13. Clarke gave an oralexposition of the Commelynace^, which order hehad lately worked out for a forthcoming volume ofDe Candolles Monographs. He defined theorder by the position of the embryo. An import-ant auxiliary character is that the three segmentsof the calyx are always imbricated, so that one isentirely outside the two others. Mr. Clarke dividesthe Commelynacea; into three tribes, as follows :— dudes eighteen well selected varieties of Dutch,German, and French nationality. Aubergines andVirtous Cabbages should be no novelties after thisseason. A Heavy Koiil-rabi.—At a recent meeting of the Berlin Horti

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