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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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. And yet possibly few landscapegardeners would regret indiscriminate raids onbracken more than Mr. Simpson, surrounded, almost the roots early in April, will kill the major part ofthem. But it cannot be needful to wage a war ofdecimation, to say nothing of extermination, againstbracken. Mr. Simpsons spark-guards on funnelswould prevent the firing of bracken and other crops,timber-yards, &e. The beating back of such cropsfrom the sides of the line would also do much in thesame direction. The early cutting or harvesting ofbracken would reduce the risk of fire to nil, forbracken is by no means inflammable till dead ripe.Cutting the crop before this stage of perfect maturitywould also improve its fibre for paper-making, andpossibly for other trade purposes, as well as greatlyimprove bracken for the bedding of live-stock, andthe protection of fruit-blossoms, Roses, &c. In some ofour best nurseries nothing else but sprays of brackenhave been used for the protection of Tea and other
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TlCi. 122.—MAPANIA PANDANTFOLIA (CYPERACE.E).(Exhibited at the Temple Show by Messrs. F. Sander h Co. See Kel or;, r. 353.) produce a crop. Singularly enough Dr. Hogg fails toname the stalk, which is long and slender, and turnedto one side. I). T. F. HOW TO DISESTABLISH BRACKEN. — I haveseldom enjoyed an article more than that of Mr.Simpson, of Wortley, on the above in a recent numberof the Gard. Chron. There was a freshness about itborn of the woods of bracken so vividly described.No doubt, under such fiery conditions as environ thewoods of Wortley, dried bracken may at limes provea huge tinder-box to set the woods and forests in ablaze ; aud hence Mr. Simpsons vigorous protestagainst fringing our railways, canopied with stream-ing comets of red-hot sparks, with powder-drybracken in autumn-tide, unless taking due pre-cautions to confine the firo-showers to the barrentrack of the line, or beating back or catting downthe bracken to a safe distance. While doubtlessMr. Simpsons main

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