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Title: The Florist and horticultural journal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Horticulture Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : (s.n.)
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n, $3; Azell Bowditch, Roxbury, $3. For Bouquets—William E. Carter, Cambridge, $2 ; C. S. Holbrook,East Randolph, $2 ; Messrs. Burr, Hingham, $2 ; Jonathan Morris,Newtonville $5; Master A. G. Read, Boston, for basket artificial flowers,two dollars. We have occupied perhaps too great space in this number, to theawards of premiums at our late State Fair; but there are many of our sub-scribers to whom these reports will be very interesting, especially, as thiswas the greatest Fair ever held in this State. Notwithstanding all our appeals to our subscribers, they still withhold thesubscriptions due last January ; it may be the result of carelessness on theirpart, but if so, it is very inconvenient to us; fully one third of the numberare still our debtors. Catalogues have been received from the Toledo Nursery Association,and Messrs. A. Frost & Co., Rochester, New York. Our next Plate will be a figure of a new variety of Rhododendron, theComtesse Ferdinand Visart. Ap Jul gp ; f^i At- r
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RHODODENDRUMCOMTESSE FERDtN. ViSART tVH THE FLOKIST AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. RHODODENDRON CINNAMOMEO-CAMPANULATUM, Comtesse Ferdinand Visart. (Van Houtte.) TTe give in this number a figure of a variety of Rhododendron Cinnamo-meum, obtained by Mr. Van Houtte, of Ghent. The foliage is handsome,cinnamon color beneath, and the flowers, creamy white, bordered with rose,produced in large clusters. It is adapted, in this climate, to a cool green-house. CULTURE OF THE PEACH TREE. For the last few years the culture of the Peach has declined. Theyellows, blight, peach-worm and curculio have been singularly de-structive, and fruit which a few years ago could be scarcely given away,now finds ready sales at high prices. Old orchards are dying out, and com-paratively few new ones formed to replace them; confidence in their suc-cessful culture is yearly growing weaker, till in almost every region wetravel we are told Peaches will not grow with us any more. I am not going to deny that there are no

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