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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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undance of bright rod berries, which are said to bevery poisonous ; and for this reason the plant shouldbe kept out of the reach of children. April 3, 1897.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 217 It is described in Bentbams British Flora, dated1878, as having scentless flowers, and bluish-blackberries; this does not agree with my experience, but,as a rule, I find the scent is absent until an hour or twobefore dusk. It reproduces itself freely from seedshere, and in that respect differs much from D.Mezereurn, which hitherto has failed, although manyplants of it were introduced by the late Mr. Ingram here, 40 feet long and 10 feet wide, the plants beingabout 2 feet high, and in full flower on Feb. 24. Atsuch a period of the year it would be difficult to findany hardy plant to equal it for beiuty and fragraoce.Two distinct shades of red were noticed, one muchdarker than the other. There is said to be an autumn-flowering variety, but I do not know it. W. H. Divers,Btlvoir Castle Oarden3, Grantham.
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of soda is now £9 per ton. Commercial ammoniumsulphate contains about 24*5 per cent, of ammonia,this is equal to20-17 percent, of nitrogen; commer-cial nitrate of soda contains about 155 per cent, ofnitrogen. From these figures, it will be seen that wecan buy the same quantity of combined nitrogen inthe form of ammonium sulphate for 7s. $d. as wecan for lis. Id. in the form of nitrate of soda. Another point in favour of ammonium sulphate iathe ease with which any adulteration can he detected.Pure ammonium sulphate, if placed on a hot ironplate, will be more or less volatilised, the amount ofresidue left behind is an index of the amount of im-purity. The impurities occuriing in nitrate of Bodaare not so readily detected. Both salts are easilysoluble in cold water. The effects of each salt arenearly identical upon plants, because ammoniumsulphate is changed into nitrate in the soil, and isthen absorbed by the crop. Where great leaf-growthis needed, ammonium sulphate is moBt useful. Itg

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