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Title: The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gardeners' chronicle (London, England : 1874)
Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, ornamental
Publisher: London: (Gardeners' Chronicle)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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ICLE. 747 the Datch Horseradish has rained the trade to agreat extent; the pablic willnot n«e Horteradiihbecause imported roots are generally offered them,and after trying it a few timet they give it up.M/ advice to lovers of the root is to obtain so.ne ofeach sort and try the difference, and I am convincedthey will not agiin use other than Eaglish roots.The reason the greengrocer prefers to sell the Datchit very plain ; he can bay it at a very low price, andeven this is more than it ii worth. I often tell my In June, 1894,1 planted some in a very exposedposition ; alter the abnormally severe weather ofFebruary last, I folly expected to see them killed,but was agreeably surprised to find them uninjured—whereas the common Laurels a few yards away wereseverely damaged, and many of them killed. B.Metake is no doubt the hardiest of the species. Ifind that Jane is the best time to plant, which shouldbe in well-manured soil, afterwards giving liberalsupplies of water. W. B. G. _,-,; \ .,
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flo. 17. a nf.w vauiety of onion, eaimed by mr. w. pope, highcleb.e gardens, sbffbbbt, (see p. 746.) customers in the market, Yon may as well buyPiirtnip and »craoe tbef, as use th» imDortedstuff. J ilf, Mason. Market Gardener, Eist Green-wich, S.E. BAMBUSA METAKE.—Considering the limitedDumber of ubrabs that thrive well in London andother large towns, where the atmospheric conditionsare so very detrimental to many things, we cannotafford to ignore anything that does thrive well. Ithas often Barpriaed me that Bimbusa Metake is notmuch more expensively planted, unless it is thatmany people imagine it to be less hardy than it is. MOHELLO CHERRY CULTURE.—In these tim°sfor reasons of economy in manual labour thereis one department of work that remains pretty nearlyimpregnable to all innovation, and that is the pruningand nailing of fruit trees. Glancing at what ourpredecessors in the profession did in this line, andcomparing it with that of the present, my impressionis that it was

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