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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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dy beautiful, and full ofpromise. The colour tints are almost innu-merable, and there are several unnamed seed-Hags that will add further variety to the collec-tion. At present the plants are in a warmatmosphere in one of the newer houses with anarrow doorway; but some time before the date „ balsaminiSorum, in several colours, are speciallyuseful to the florists. The packing-shed was gay with Orchids, destined,to be taken to the Drill Hall on the day following,.April 19, see p. 269. The effect in the warm rocker ywas most pleasing of all. The pretty Ferns, witka little fresh growth upon them, studded here and.there by handsome foliage plants, and Tillandsias-and VrieBias placed in suitable positions bysome one well used to effective arrangement, werebrightened by a considerable number of An-thuriums carrying highly-coloured spathes. Someof the varieties of A. Scherzerianum were remark-able ; one of them had a spathe measuring.,tik~>h inches by 6 inches, and possessed high colour.
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Fig. 115.—a GRour of mb. cooksoxs odoxtoglossums. It• 1, l, Typical O. crispum; 2. C. X exccllcns Prince oi Orange; 3. O. x Ruliea Oakwood variety ; 4, O x Andersoniaimrir Cooksonianum; P, O. Wilckeanum Sibyl ; H, O crispunr Kinlesideanum : 7. O. c. purpurascens ; 8, O. e. Lucrum; 9, O. c. Maria;; lt>. O. loocliristyense Cooksome ; V, O. c. Massangeauuni. (See p. 260.) The figures, >n white, art placed on the respective flowers, but an so inconspicuous thai a glass is necessary to enable them to be seen distinctly. colour they are rich shrimp-pink with white.Marsus is a good type of a mottled flower;colour scarlet-and-white. Lyso has also mottledflowers with veins of pale pea-green colour. Anunnamed seedling is one of the deepest crimson,having no sign of any other colour ; like most ofthese self-coloured crimson varieties the flowersare of moderate size only. Clonia is one of thevarieties nearly approaching to pure white; butthe purest is named Cyrus, whose flowers aresmall

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