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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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be witnessed elsewhere in Ireland, nor perhaps inEngland either, namely, a large seed-pan full of Disagrandiflora. There are several hundreds in the pan,in fact it closely resembles a good hit of Lobelia ornamental forms are easily raised from seed. Fineshrubs of Eranthemum pulchellum have long been inbloom; another blue is supplied by the usefulConoclinium, and among the softer rose tints ofseveral Centradenias a scarlet Nregelia shows withconsiderable brilliancy. ToNicophlxa spectabilis ismuch superior to any white Ixora, and possesses adelicious fragrance. Eranthemum Ecbolium remainscontinually in flower; growing beneath the stagesthere is always a succession of shoots. Passing a fewother showy flowers, among which is a good form ofImantophylhim miniatum, we light upon a rarity inJj»e shape of Pegonia albo-coccinea, introduced someyears ago by Messrs. Veitch, now prettily in flower,as it has been all the winter. Its leaves are veryornamental and distinct, appearing like those of a
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Fig. 55.—a temple garden near Yokohama, (see r. 304 ) planting. Mr. Denning plants .all his Potato tubersintended for frame-work first in small pots, the top ofthe tuber just projecting from the soil. In this wayonly the roots that are developed at the base of theshoots are enticed into the soil, whilst all the tuberrootlets remain exposed to the air. When the plantsare about S inches in height they are phanted out inframes lo inches apart each way, the tuber rootletsbeing just buried. The stems afterwards receive twoearthings by added soil of about 1 inch each in thick-ness ; and the result of this mode of culture, saysMr. Denning, is that the young tubersare producedjfar earlier, are finer, and there is a better and moreregular crop than is found where the tubers areplanted perhaps from 4 to 5 inches deep at the first.This plan, it is evident, admits of the strongest beingselected to plant up together, and the weaker ones speciosa. Already Mr. Moore has been successfulin transferr

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