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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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sow garden Peas, and they germinateat once, flowering the third or fourth year. Wehave tubers of this Calla that could not be pottedin 8-inch pots owing to their large size ; in shapeand method of increase they exactly resembleCaladium tubers. J. Tailby $ Son, Wellesley, Man. dils are being raised all over England, and, infact, all over the world. In the Christmasnumber of a New Zealand paper, four new seed-lings are figured, and look promising. My im-pression is that all the is and the iis willhave to be abandoned as sectional names, andthe varieties so called to go into the magni,medii, and parvi classification, with perhaps oneor two additional classes. The Royal Horticul-tural Societys Narcissus Committee shoulddecide in an arbitrary way to which class avariety belongs, as is done by the Dahlia Com-mittee in the case of the Cactus Dahlias. Thehonour to the raiser could not and need not beoverlooked. The method of the old florists was,to write the name, followed in brackets by the
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Fig. 12.—the emperor fountain, displayed before the king and queen at chatsworth on monday last, (see p. 26.) leading, it is desirable to correct the same as soonas possible before it becomes a matter of record.As a matter of fact, the plant noted is not a Lily,but a cross-bred Calla, the result of crossing thecommon Calla or Ricbardia albo-maculata withthe fine C. Elliottiana. The result being as tocolour of blooms exactly intermediate, that is tosay, a beautiful lemon yellow with the charac-teristic deep brown base to the flowers. In vigorthe new variety exceeds all expectations in thatit exceeds the common R. sethiopica in growth,-vigorous plants blooming with the first leave?,these being beautifully spotted in both parents,and attaining a height of 3 to 4 feet during theseason. It should also be said that the plant isno more hardy than a Potato; the tubers,in fact, are treated exactly as Potatos intheir culture. Being planted out in settled,warm weather here in May, they are lef

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