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Identifier: annalsofhorticul1850unse (find matches)
Title: The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening
Year: 1850 (1850s)
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Subjects: Horticulture--Periodicals Gardening--Periodicals Fruit-culture--Periodicals Floriculture--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: Houlston and Stoneman
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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s and great acidity, it was generallysoon rooted out, and is now seldom seen ingardens. It is however well worthy of a placein all, merely for preserving.— GardenersChronicle. Lambs Lettuce, or Corn Salad (Valeri-anella olitoria).—The merits of this homelyplant are not so well known as they shouldbe. It forms a first-rate ingredient in a salad,and is, I believe, an excellent purifier of theblood. Being a native of Britain, it is veryhardy, and, if sown in July, August, andSeptember, an excellent succession of it willbe kept up during the winter. Then sowagain in spring. If a large frame can bespared, the best plants might be taken up withballs and planted thickly in it. The cultivatorcould then have it at command. I have neverblanched it, and therefore cannot say whetherthat would improve it or not. Sow in bedsor rows six inches apart ; thin out afterwardsto six inches in the row. It will afford manycuttings, if not cut down too closely.—Gar-deners Chronicle. Tlltt PETUNIA. 4tJI
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a. Petunia nyctaginiflora. b. P. violacea, or, integrifolia. THE PETUNIA—ITS CULTIVATION AND PROPERTIES. BY GEORGE GLENKY, F.H.S. _ (The two figures in the wood engravinggiven above, represent the original speciesfrom which the race of garden or floristspetunias have sprung ; the largei% P. nyctagi-niflora (a) bearing white flowers ; the smaller,P. integrifolia (b) flowers of a brilliant rosy-purple. This latter, under good cultivation,is, notwithstanding its small size, as comparedwith other petunias, one of the most brilliantand enduring of summer-flowering plants.) The Petunia is one of the few perennialsthat form a principal ornament in a flower-garden, and which, if planted out in variety,make a great display during the greater partof the summer. The form and colour of theflower have been the leading attractions forsome years ; but the style and habit of theplant is of some importance. It is a favouriteamong those plants which continue growingand blooming all the time it occupi

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