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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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ned yellow and red in autumn, or tlie very yellowor red leaves of early spring. Thus we see that allcoloured ))etals are due to oxidisation or othiM-chemical change in the usual and normal consti-tuents of ordinary green leaves. It thus becomesevident that this subject is one of great and practicalinterest to the florist and the gardener, since we may times larger and heavier, which is of course quitea different thing, for no one would argue that sineand weight were always to be taken as evidence of aplants being either robust or hardy, a young Oaksapling, for example, being quite as robust as itsolder parent of far greater size and weight. A. t).*thinks the colour of Potato tubers as comparedwith the colour of their leaves and flowers iscapricious and chimerical (j). 277), I maintain thatthere is no caprice, no chance, no accident, andno exception, in plant-colour or in Nature gener-ally. Of course, tliis and many other questions con-cerning plant-life are wholly, or in jtart, myste-
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JrlG. qS.—SHIRLEY FOPIIHt-: UHITE TO (jLOWING SCARLET. (sEE P. 308.) remedy for this apparent injustice would be in ourown hands, because by our subscriptions we couldoutvote the richer subscribers, who, though notgardeners, are entitled by their subscriptions tonominate for election bond fide gardeners, whetherthey have been subscribers or not. If we look at itfairly, this is only just and right, and those whothink otherwise (as I myself once did) now knowwhat is the remedy, namely, to subscribe in grpaternumbers, and vote accordingly. W. Wildsnnth. PLANT COLOUR.—Mr. Sorby, who has chemicallystudied the question of plant colour, tells us that thevarious pigments of bright petals are already con-tained in the ordinary tissues of the plant, whose hope that at no distant date the chemists mayfurther help us on to a more enlightened state thanchance or accident in the development offloral colouring. Now it is conclusively known thatall plants have the elements of all colours in their

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