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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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ormand colour. And such improved poeticus would inturn give us improved hybrids. The cultivation of the poeticus is easier than thatof most other Narcissi, but two memoranda shouldbe made—first, that it is more capable than the re&tof as-irnilating nitrogen-or, in pain words, that it AMELANCHIER CANADENSISVAE. OBLONGIFOLIA. Tbe species and varieties of AmelaDchier are bybo means easy to distinguish one from another. Toaid in the task we now give an illustration (tig. 115)of a plant which was in flower recently at Kew,and a description of which by Mr. Bean was givenin a recent issue (p. 265). details of experiments with vaiious manures ondifferent plots of Sugarcane. The plots were dupli-cated, but the variations in the yield of some of theseduplicated plots is greater than the variation causedby the application of the manure. This plainlybrings out the fact that the variations in yield due tosoil condition are more important than those producedby the action of manures. Hon Kono.
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IMILAXCHILR CANADENSIS VAK. OBLONGIFOLIA. likes farm-yard-manure ; and, secondly, that it is theearliest to make fresh root-growth, and thereforesVould be the first to be attended to in the matterof lifting aud replanting. On pior, dry soils,the do ible poeticus is apt to bear blind spathes ; butwhere it is amply supplied wiih manure and water,it fields flowirs as fine as white Camellias. G. II.Jlntjhheart Colonial Notes. ANTIGUA.Tue report of the results obtained on the Experi-mental Farm in this island by Mr. Watts. GovernmentChemist, and Mr. Shepheid, Superintendent ofSkerretts School, has reached us. It contains The typhoon which swept over the Colony onJuly 29 was the severest experienced here since thedisastrous ons of 1874. The gardens suffered veryseverely by the loss and injury of trees and shrubs,which, together with the losses in 1894 from succes-sive typhoons of that year, left traces which will bikemany years to recover from, the plant-houses andother structures received

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