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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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Indiaand Ceylon. This would probably raise the total to200,000,000 of seedlings—about enough, one wouldthink, to stock the whole of the hill countries ofIndia and Ceylon. Your readers will bear in mind that this is alltheory, except, indeed, the fact that every seed placedin favourable circumstances may be expected to ger-minate. Fortunately for the planters themselves, nosuch calculation as the above holds good in reality. Florists Flowers. The National Auricula Societys Show(Southern Section).—With reference to a propo-sition which has been made, that in place of the mid-day meeting, the members, friends and exhibitors ofthe National Auricula Society (Southern Section)should dine together on the evening of the 20th atthe Horticultural Club, Arundel .Street, .Strand ; asI am quite without the time or strength to engage ina long correspondence on the subject, will you kindlypermit me to say there are insuperable obstacles in theway ? In the first place a mid-day season of refresh-
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FlG. 73.—CINCHONA OlHCINALIS, n UKITUSI.NGA. The world is in no danger for some time to cumc ofbeing inundated with barks from India. The wholesupply from all quarters probably would not suffice tokeep the quinine manufactories at present existing infull operation. But another factor in the calculation has to betaken into account—that in more than one quarter(as I have reason to believe) highly successful effortsare being made to cultivate the best sorts in theirnative climes in South America. I will not add to the length of this paper by fur-nishing deductions which your readers can supply forthemselves. I have sought to present facts, as faras space would permit, for the formation of a judg-ment on the whole subject, yckn Eliot Hoxcard,F.R.S. ment is a necessity: after the arduous labours of theirseveral parts, the mortal coil of judges, exhibitors,and executives alike require some sustenance ; and ifthat season be not utilised for a little social andfloral communion, excepting

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