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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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ties of turfy loam, con-■taining what I considered to be plenty of limeand nitrogen. To the soil on both strips I alsoapplied superphosphate at the rate of 12 ouncesper square yard, and to one of the strips onlysulphate of potash at the rate of 6 ounces persquare yard. The yield of Tomatos from theformer strip was 21 lb. per square yard, and from■the latter, which had received the potash dress-ing, it was 37 lb. per square yard; and the fruitwas finer in both appearance and flavour, andworth quite a penny per pound more. The•variety of Tomato grown was Listers Prolific.J. T. Holmes, Saluarpe, Droitwich. HYBRID WALLFLOWER. The flowers illustrated in fig. 52 are those of ahybrid Wallflower shown by Messrs. Jas. Veitch& Sons, Chelsea, at the meeting of the RoyalHorticultural Society, on February 9. It is theresult of a cross between a garden variety of TREES AND SHRUBS. FOTHERGILLA MAJOR.The genus Fothergilla was founded in memoryof John Fothergill, M.D., a celebrated physician
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Fig. 52.—hybrid wallflower : cheiranthus x kewensis.(Colour Orange-yellow and Purplish-lilac.) Cheiranthus Cheiri and the species C. mutabilis.The flowers when first opening are orange-yellowcoloured, but soon become purplish. They arevery fragrant, and Messrs. Veitch stated that theplants were in flower during the greater part ofthe year. The plants shown were in pots, and wepresume it was of pot plants Messrs. Veitch werespeaking. in London during the middle of the eighteenthcentury, who formed an extensive collection ofplants at Upton, in Es3ex, between 1762 and 1781,making a speciality of North American plants.The genus has long been represented in gardensby F. Gardeni (syn. F. alnifolia), a small shrub,native of the South-eastern United States, andbelonging to the same natural order as the Witch- 124 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (February 2U; 19a*. Hazels (Hamamelis). Until recently the genushas been considered monotypic, all the Fother-gillas known being regarded as varieties or f

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