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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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ion, entered at nightlike a thief, and showed his poor spite by destroy-ing his neighbours Vines. Spite thus expressed ishappily not of frequent occurrence, and thereforewhen so shown it calls for special comment. It isnow ten years since a scoundrel wishing to vent hismalice against a respectable, but to him offendingneighbour, entered into his orchard in the dead ofnight, and with a sharp instrument cut down several a vacant season, so as to give full liberty for thecarrying out of operations that require attention at aparticular time. There is much to be done in agarden that needs no special time for its completion,but which can best be carried out through the winter,when there is most leisure. Few things contributemore to the pleasure derivable from the inspection ofa collection of plants, large or small, than their beinglegibly labelled, so that those who see and take aninterest in them, but who are not possessed of the tech-nical capacity to know everything at sight, can satisfy
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Fig. 46.—A IlNE-APPLE AT HOME, (SEE P. 24O.) in the way of greens. A sample received at that timeproved on being cooked to be mild, tender, and deli-cious in flavour. The heads received were of nicesize, very solid, and resembling in appearance a smallCocoa-nut Cabbage. Mr. Gilbert is to be con-gratulated on the possession of such a sterling acqui-sition. Spite in the Vinerv.—The recent outrage committed upon the Vines growing in AldermanCoxs vinery, at Brighton, shows that we haveamongst us some people who are capable of vile actsand of whom we have little cause to be proud. Itwould be difficult to lind amongst Afghans or Zulus dozens of fine fruit trees. Losses from other causesfarheavierthan this might be endured with equanimity,because in these are seen only causes beyond controland which evince no enmity. It is to be desired, inthe interests of justice, that the miscreant may be dis-covered and receive a degree of punishment that shallsuffice to deter others from following so

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