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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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d flowers,for private gardens, the choice in such a case wouldcertainly be limited to gardeners or market gar-deners, or both. You are right in Btating inyour note appended to my letter last week,that I am, perhaps, not aware how the moneyhas been spent at Chiswick, but I know how fara pound will go in a garden, and I will throw insay, one-third of the £1324 for the renovations andrepairs mentioned—a very liberal annual allowance—and which would leave about £90 per acre formanagement, fuel, and sundries, &c.—an allowance September 7, lS9o.) THE GARDE NEBS C SB ONI CLE. 273 which I have never known to be granted in the best which at present centres in this part of the Arctic gardens, except, perhaps, where the hot-houses and regions, the results, especially as to the movements early forcing werOnnch greater than usual, and the of the ice, are of much importance. From the fuel bill high; and;enquiry>ill, I feel lore, prove as account which has been. forwarded to the Royal
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Fig. 51.—disa kewensis x : colour rosy-cbimsok, purple spotted,from the royal gardens, kew. much. Experimental work is neither more expen-sive nor more harassing than private gardening, tosay the least. Head. NOVAYA ZEMLYA. An expedition, organised by Mr. H. J. Pearson,left England in the end of May with the intention ofvisiting Novaya Zemlya. In view of the interest Geographical Society, we learn that the members ofthe party were Mr. H. J.Pearson, Mr. C. E. Pearson,the Rav. H. H. Slater, and ColonelFeilden. LeavingVardo in the steam yacht Saxon on June 14, acourse was laid for Nameless Bay, in the north-westof Novaya Zemlya. The ice conditions in Barents Seawere found to be extremely unfavourable. Impene-trable pack was met with about SO miles from the west coast of Novaya Zemlja, trending towards thenorth-west, and several days were spent in cruis-ing along the edge of the heavy ice to the south-east. Erery likely bight in the pack was entered,and in some cases these indentations

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