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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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ter than Mr. Douglas the necessity for providingdifferent houses for different classes of plants. Hor-ticulture requires suitable surround ngs, and will rjot upon second thought, Mr. Douglas may not see verymuch to laugh at, either in the state of the benevo-lent funds or in any effort to augment them. JamesL. Wood. THE LATE MR. JAMES WEBBER.—No doubt tomany gardeners or general readers of the GardenersChronicle, Mr. James Webber, whose lamented deathyou last week recorded, was a very successful sales-man of garden produce, and no more. To manyothers, however, he was well known for his activework in connection with gardening charities. Totoo few probably was he known as a very earnest andunselfish reformer of our market habits and customs,especially in relation to fruit. With the exception ofMr. George Monro, who was a very sympathetic co-operator with Mr. Webber, no other Covent Gardensalesman ever attempted to do so much to promotereform in fruit-packing for market sale as he did.
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-OVPllIFEDICJM-UOnSK IN M. L. LLNL >lOO.tTUBKF.CK, BUUSSfcXS. (SEE I. 48J that a combination of all the other sciences with horti-culture spells f.iilure. I venture to say that such arc&ult might have been foreseen as inevitable ; forMich projects, despite the pomp and ceremony whichattended their inauguration, and the great flourishot trumpets, which Mr. Douglas particularises. He,however, adds, that this usually accompanies unsuc-cessful horticultural schemes ; and here I wouldit mark that a very great flourish of trumpets will borequired to herald Mr. Douglass Temple of Horti-culture (formed after the similitude of the DrillHall of the London Scottish Volunteers in JamesStreet, Westminster, a building on a modest scale,not for large flower aliows), when he lets us see hisplans, because such a scheme would be predestined tofailure, and therefore should have a great flourish oftrumpets, like ite unhappy predecessors. A buildingfor large shows is precisely what is now fo urgent

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