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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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Buteas, Jonesias,and Hibiscus, enliven the forests with their splendour. about to bloom. On the 7ih, 9th, loib, and nthalso some sharp white frosts inflicted considerabledamage ; (m the low lands principally, although notentirely, large acreages of Barley, Oats, Peas, andeven of fall Wheat, succumbed to the Fiost Kingsseverity. The crops on the high ground generally are lookingextremely well, with the exception of the hay crop,which it is feared will be everywhere deficient. The Onion-fly you have so opportunely illustratedis doing us the same injury you complain of, and forthe first time ; the Asparagus also is showing somesigns of worm depredation. We have been plantingthis spring some Balm of Gilead trees. They have avery agreeable fragrance, and being fine shade treesas well, we wonder they arc not more patronised inEngland. For the last thirteen nights we have been visited bya comet of greater brilliancy than has been seen sincethe one of 1S58. The tail, of some 12,000,000 miles
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Fig. 25.—the PiiAL.iiNorsis-iiousE at Messrs. lows nursery, clapton. (see r. loS.) intervals seven lateral shoots, about half the length ofthe central one, and, like it, covered with flowers. Atotal length of 6 feet 10 inches of closely packedflowers on one spike is deserving of record. TRADE MEMORANDUM. Several inquiiies have reached us with referenceto Messrs. George Baker & Son, of Windlesham,near Bagshot, whose mode of conducting business doesnot appear to meet with approval. COLONIAL NOTES. Ceylon Flora.—I cannot allow the descriptiongiven of the Cejlon flor.i by II. j. E. in your issueof April 30 last to pass unobserved. He says (p. 560)that neither Ferns, mosses, nor creepers, are numerous.I find the indigenous species of plants mentioned byDr. Thwailes in his F.niimeralion of Ceylon Plant! toinclude dicotyledons, 1959; monocotyledons, 648; and The dejise, impenetrable herbaceous plant men-tioned is Strobilanthes, called by the n,atives Nel-loo, of which there are some

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