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Title: The Canadian horticulturist
Identifier: canhorticulturist1903 (find matches)
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture
Publisher: St. Catherines (Ont. ) : Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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480 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. the cross and the sepulchre where there shall be no more death and where the sunlight is eternal. " The religiou of Jesus has exorcised the baneful superstition which gathered round this lovely flower, and made it an object of dread as capable of causing personal injury to maid or matron who happened to step over it, so much so, indeed, that Gerarde, in his famous Herbal, tells us when he had cyclamens growing in his garden he stuck a fence of sticks around them and laid others MiGNONETTTE MACHE WHITE BY this demonstration the well known firm, Pape & Bergmann, Quedlin- burg, Germany, sets forth a very remarkable novelty, which forms indeed a magnificent counterpiece to those varieties, Rubin and Goliath (the red machet), introduced by the same growers several years ago. The exhibit of this novelty is that peculiar to the machet class, viz., vigorous and com- pact also very ramifying and of rich bloom. The blossom stems, erect and firm, bear long very thick and nicely obtused blossom pani- cles, towering elegantly above the quite dark green slightly undulated foliage, such as ought to be the case with a genuine machet. With a mignonette the color of the blossoms is of a remarkably pure white, among which now and then appear single red anthers, ren- dering more striking and showy still this novelty, these two colors together forming a very good and pleasant contrast with each other. Mignonette machet (White Pearl) is as appropriate for pot flower as for growth in open ground, affords remarkable enrich- ment to the material for bouquets, flower glasses, etc., a white machet certainly form- ing a beautiful and striking alteration among the other varieties known, so this novelty will obtain a lasting and prominent crosswise over them lest any woman should touch them and be hurt." Shirley Hibberd says it is quite a common event to see cyclamen persicum with fifty to one hundred flowers, and we once saw a plant that must have had at least five hun- dred blossoms. It was presented at a meet- ing of the floral committee of the Royal Horticultural Society by Mr. Wiggins, on the 12th of February, 1884. The plant was at least seven years old, with a corm nearly as large as a baby's head. T, WHITE PEARL, THE MACHET. situation in the flower line. Combined with Machet Rubin, be it in beds or in bouquets, it will afford an excellent effect, these two varieties being so well adapted the one for the other. Not yet quite constant.
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Fig 2689. Mignonette Machet.

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