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Title: The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Charles H. Marot
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ight, a very beautiful shrubbyevergreen Acacia with yellow flowers and blue-ish-green leaves, the color of those of the Car-nation pink. The withered flower was Daturaviolacea, but though fresh from the garden with-ered on the way to have its picture taken. The 1870.) AND HORTICULTURIST. 131 leaf on the left is the leaf of the Hibiscus withthe white flower. Small white flowers you willrecognize as Jasminum granditlorum. Largedark leaf of the Red Ricinus. Photograph No. ■!. 1st. The Tuberose was thesecond Hovver from the same bulb, which hadbloomed in July and again the first of Xovem-ber. The Tuberose is a fine specimen of the center were some sprays of Atragene, but theyare indistinct although they look handsome; thesewere stuck into a pot in which a small plantwith imperfect clusters of Clereodendrum fra-grans is growing, three variegated leaves of FicusParcelli, Marechal Neil bud lying upon the Celo-sia Uniola, etc. The fronds of fern and spraysof Biota you will easily recognize.
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average tuberose as grown here—the commonlarge variety. I have had a thousand in bloomat one time ; none inferior, many of them better.They are of no market value here. A boy witha dozen spikes carried them around the streetsand home again without being able to sell one forten cents. Sedge grass in centre, Pampas grassto the right, and a small spray to the left. Thelarge one on the left is Erianthus Ravenn.T; in the We had these taken to send to some of ourfriends, and as we enjoy each month perusingthe Gardeners Monthly, we thought itmight possibly be proper to send you one ofeach. Gardening is yet but partially an art in thisgenial climate, and will not make much progressuntil we have a horticultural work suited to ourclimate. The lessons learned by experience are 138 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY (May, valuable to others, but the florist or nurserymanwho has to earn his daily bread cannot affordtime to teach all mankind gratis what he haslearned. Yet people pay more each year forforeign

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