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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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ch & Sons, Chelsea, who hope shortly to beable to distribute it to the public. • The Royal Botanic Institution or Glas-gow.—The Corporation of Glasgow have granted aloan of ^25,000 to the Institution for the purchase ofthe Kibble Conservatory, the erection of new conser-vatories, and for other improvements. The Kibble leaves exhibit a dark green metallic hue on theirupper surfaces, and below are deeply tinged with red,Messrs. Haage & .Schmidt, of Erfurt, introducedthe species from Rio Grande do Sul, and Dr. Regelnamed it in honour of the senior member of the firm. New Sardinian Oak.—Sig. A. Bouzi describes in a recent number of the Nuovo GionialeBotanico Italiano an Oak growing in Sardinia inassociation with Q. Ilex and Q. Suber. It resemblesthe latter, but differs in the duration of the acorns,and is possibly of hybrid origin. CoBQiA pendumelora.—Dr. A. Ernst, of Caracas, writes :— In No. 361 of your journal thereis a note on Cobu;a penduliflora (p. 694), to which I
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Fig. 40.—a corner of the rockery at eenthall hall, (see p. 205.) names are a guarantee of frealj horticulturalwork. It is a genuine gain to have such menon the Council as iVIessrs. Dillwyn, Mac-intosh, and G. F. Wilson ; in their hands theinterests of horticulture in its widest sense arenot likely to suffer. Frozen Potatos.—A correspondent sends us ths following cutting from a Scotch newspaper :—Mr. Gordon, Curlusk, Boharm, last week openedup one of his Potato pits, when he found that thefrost had penetrated through the earth and frozen thePotatos into a solid mass. He filled up about 40bushels of them into bags and placed them in thebottom of his mill-dam, where he allowed them toremain three days. They were then taken out and Conservatory is to be converted into a temperate-house or winter garden, with space for promenadeconcerts. LiNNEAN Society.—The papers to be read at the meeting on Thursday next (17th) are :— OnRight and Left Hand Contortion of the Corolla, byC. B. Cl

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