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Title: The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette
Year: 1850 (1850s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, ornamental
Publisher: London: Published for the Proprietors
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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Mr. C. WAr.NEK. has contrived a similar house atHoddesdon, in which we understand that the diffi-culty of combining horticultural convenience andgraceful arrangement has been happily overcome.At one end of his house there is a small piece ofwater surrounded by rock-work, on which he growssome of the larger Ferns—Tillandsias, Lycopods,^schynanths, small Palms, with the Bamboo, &c.Here parts of the wall are becoming covered withclimbing Ferns; on the pillars supporting the roofvarious Orchids are growing, along with LycopodsWe hope to give a more particular account of thishouse on a future occasion. The real inconvenience of managing houses thusconstructed consists in the difficulty of dealing withthe swarms of insects which secrete themselves byday in the crevices of stones, and sally forth at nightin search of food. When Orchid-growing was ininfancy we witnessed an experiment like that of Mr.Warners, which totally failed from this cause. Theplants introduced into the house had a

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