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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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rown.The ample labellum pure white, with a few purplemarks at the base. It thrivea best when grown ina moist intermediate-house, auch aa auits MiltoniaKoezlii, Miltonia vexillaria, and the plants usuallyassociated with them. average crop, New England being especially deficient;while in the central-weat the crop ia the largeat evergrown. The aeaaon has been one of contradictions,new conditions conatantly arising of sufficient im-portance to vitiate preconceived ideas. May frosts were followed by such weather asoperated to minimise their importance. Drought,growing serious in June and July, was relieved inAugust. On September 1 the crop appeared vir-tually made, and in extent there was every indica-tion that it was record-breaking. The final outputof marketable Apples is large, but it is not theburdensome crop that seemed certain a shorttimeago. Dry weather, hot winds and locally severe atormaduring September made great changea in the proapectfor winter fruit. The windfall haa been anr-
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FlQ. 105.—TBICHOPILU BBEVIS FLOWEBS OF AN INDIAN-VELLOW COLOUB, BARBED WITH CHESTNUT; LIP WHITF,WITH FDEPLE MARKINGS AT THE DASE. Hall, Winchcombe, Cheltenham, writea:— I amsending you a Bower of Cypripedium aelligerum,taken from a plant which invariably throws up asimilarly deformed bloom as a preliminary, and afterthat is over, it sends up a spike of good flowers. Ihave now one with a two-flowered spike following adeformed flower. The flower is a very singular one. The sepalsand petals are of the usual form, but the labellum isinside out. The part which in the normal floweris at the back and resting on the lower sepals, beingin front, and the opening in the pouch, with the sidesturned out instead of in, is at the back. It is avery singular freak, and it bears out our conclusions,formerly expressed, as to the constancy of abnormalflowers in some plants. THE APPLE CROP OP 1895. We learn from the American Agriculturist that theestimated commercial crop of Applea of the UnitedStatea

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