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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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l exhibition, it Is ead to fiDdour Irish Society in ditli.-alties : and I trust that someof your Irish readers may be induced to come to itsassistance. That the Royal Horticultural Society ofIreland has done good work in the past is known to allgardeners, and the Council lidding that in re cent yearsiberehas been a distinct increase iu the interest takenin gardening in Ireland and in the work of the Society,are determined to make a special effort to wipe out thedebt due by the Society, and to place it in a position tocontinue its good work in the future. This end theyhope to attain by means of a large tloral lete andDaffodil show to be held in Dublin od April If and 1.5next; and also by being enabled through the generosityof individuals to claim Mr. Smiths cheque. GARDENERS DERATINGSOCIETIES. DEVON AND EXETER GARDENERS. — The Springsession of this Association was opened on January irwith a paper by Mr. Win. Amerv, entitled. Incidentsof a Trip to Am:rici. M>. Wallls Mackay, of the
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Fig. 42.—the silver or plata variety of orange, from a fruit cultivated by messrs. t. rivers and son, and shown at the drill hall on january 26. tulp juicy, flavour delicate. (see p. 76.) order are bi- or even polycarpellary; but in thesecases the polycarpellary fruit is of an apocarpousnature It would appear, therefore, that the speci-mens described in some sense revert to ancestral con-ditions iu so far as their bicarpellary nature is con-cerned, but that their syncarpous nature is anomalou*.Comparison with related orders, e.g., the Connaracete,confirms this opinion. THE LONDON DAHLIA UNION. January 26.— The annual meeting of the supportersof the Union met in good numbers under the presi-dency of Mr. John Green, the Chairman of the Com-mittee, at the Hotel Windsor on the above date. TheSecretary read a large number of letters promisingsupport to an exhibition in September next. A balanct-sheet was submitted by the Secretary, Mr, R. Dean,showing the receipts from all sources to b

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