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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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of the most remunerativefruit crops it a good yield be obtained, but thebushes bear so seldom that comparatively few aregrown round Evesham. We are told that underthe system employed in France failure is theexception ; so let us by all means find out how itis done. One of the Party. CHEYSANTHEMUMS. I AM sending you a photograph (fig. 28)showing our Chrysanthemums here. The stageis about 2 feet G inches from the ground, andthere are hot-water pipes under it, therefore the ORCHID NOTES ANO GLEANINGS. ■ ♦ CATTLETA LABIATA SPLENDENS.A VERY large and richly coloured flower ofCattleya labiata is sent by F. W. Moore, Esq .,Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, whoremarks that it is by far the best of its classwhich he has seen. The sepals are broad andflat, and the crimped-edge petals rather over2! inches in width. Both sepalsand petals are ofa brii^ht rosy-mauve colour, with a small silver-white base to each segment. The side lobesofthe lip are of the same colour as the petals, the
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Fig. S8.—trained chrysanthemums. only way we can manage to display our Chrysan-themum-plants is to tie them down to form a bank.Some of the plants were 7 feet high, and all over5 feet this season. We have to bend them downto cover the pots, then slope them up to the glassat the back, which would be about 2 feet 6 inchesfrom the stage. It is a delicate task to tie themdown, as the growths are apt to snap; but any-one having a stage like ours may profitably tiethe plants similarly when they are in flower.There are 100 pots. We generally put twoplants in a pot, or three in 12-size pots, in caseone plant should break in the bending ; and it iseasy then to lay a plant each way, so that thecolours may be mixed. W. C. Sviith, Ecton HallGardens, Northamjaton. broad front being ruby-purple. There are fine-yellow lines on the reddish base of the lip on theinside. It is a very excellent form, and fewflowers can compare with it for bright colouringat this season. The Orchid Keview for January g

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