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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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dge, a decided improvement, by which the older andlong-favoured Alarm is superseded. Madame Car-valho, a good white sort, was just opening ; and therewere others in abundance coming forward to keep upthe display. M. branches were not visible until after the January hoarfrosts, and chiefly after the sap had begun to flow ;whilst it is further evidenced that the damage was ofrecent origin, in the fact that many branches put forthleaves and bloom, and only collapsed when the rotinduced by the frost injuries spread through the wood.All the trees in question are growing on a south-westslope, the soil beneath being elevated into 6 feetrounded beds, on which are planted Gooseberrybushes and Violets, that all excessive surface-watercan get off quickly, and that the soil is naturally welldrained and by no means waterlogged. On the higherportion there is a considerable substratum of gravel,and here the damage is just as great as lower down,where the soil is stiffer and has an admixture of clay.
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Fig. 132.—masdevallia bella ; nat. size, (see r. 760.) spots in the upper segment, the leaf also remarkablygood ; Vauban, scarcely out, but with a noble trussof soft reddish-lilac flowers, having a very conspicuousblotch of bronry-yellow spots on the upper part ; LadyClermont, a very superior variety, producing finetrusses of deep rosy-crimson flowers with a con-spicuous dark blotch ; Lady Armstrong, a pale rosy-magenta with light blotch marked with small blackspots, very distinct and beautiful; Delicatum, one ofthe best ef the whites, having good foliage, and largewhite flowers marked with a large trifid blotchof greenish-yellow spots ; and Mrs. H. Ingersoll, adistinct sort, of fine habit, with bright rosy-scarletflowers, having a well-marked green blotch, whichrenders it very attractive. Other fine sorts in good ^0iite Ol^0mspnkm. Dead Apple Trees.—C. L.s note upon thistopic (p. 724) does not give a satisfactory reason forthe severe injuries to the many Apple trees I recentlymen

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