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Title: Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). Extracts from the proceedings
Subjects: Gardening Botany Horticulture Fruit-culture
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Contributing Library: Harvard Botany Libraries
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ves. Orchids, although they play strangepranks with their flowers, are usually constant enough in theirway of producing them. Here, however, is a remarkable excep-tion. A fine plant, of the variety Dr. Lindley, of the commonlilac, of which a great deal has been said lately, came from Chis-wiek, and, to compare with it, abundant cut flowers of Charles X.,wThich is evidently far the finest variety, and well adapted forbleaching, a practice which was lately so fashionable at Paris, theetiolated flowers being peculiarly beautiful and not speedily de-caying. Some observations were made on the rat-tailed radish,of which so much has lately been said in the public journals. Theseed from Messrs. Yilmorins sent out by the Society is evidentlysomething very different; and what the Editor has seen arrive atfull growth appears to be merely the large-rooted radish commonlycultivated in India, some of the roots being white others red. InIndia it is said to be as large occasionally as a mans thigh. 3
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