File:The Gardeners' chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1905) (14597861247).jpg

Identifier: gardenerschronic337lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors:
Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
goodness, is Irene ? you ask. Abeautiful name; but is it also a beautiful place yIrene, I may say, is a sometime notable spot in theTransvaal, on the direct road between Johannes-burg and Pretoria, near to the latter place. Itstands on the Eand higli veldt, at a lower altitudethan the Golden City, and is some 5,000 feetabove mean sea-level. A beautiful name Irene certainly is, and avery beautiful garden also, seeing that the were the grounds to be laid out and planted.Mr. Nelmapuis being then in Europe, lookedaround to find, if possible, a suitable landscape-gardener, and hearing that a clever young Germanwas then at the Orchid nurseries of Messrs.Sander, St. Albans, who had received his earlierexperience in the French gardens and nurseries,,sent for him, and finding him eflBcient, with ideasof his own, engaged Mr. Puchs and despatchedhim at once to the scene of his future work in theTransvaal, to begin the laying out of the grounds,at Irene.Mr. Fuchs amusingly refers to his work and
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 2.—the garden staff at irene, Transvaal. size. Alpine) plants, though cultivated to someextent by a few amateurs in Japan, are not long-lived in gardens owing to the tropical heat of thesummer, and are not so numerous or varied as inthe Alps, Himalayas, and the Altai mountains,or on Mount Tacoma in Washington, which Ivisited on my way back to St. Louis in August.H. J. Elwes, Colesbornc. FORESTERS Diary. — Websters ForestersPocket Diary and Note-Book has been issued byW. Eider & Son, 164, Aldersgate Street. It isa most convenient little publication, containingin addition to a diary just the sort of informationthat the busy man wants, whether in the woodsand nurseries or at the desk. An index furtherhelps the reader to find what he wants. Transvaal as a whole cannot by any means becilled beautiful. Grand and awe-inspiring, witha wonderfully fertile soil, the high veldt, thegoldfields of South Africa, is now denuded of aUits indigenous woodlands, and is chiefly a water-less

Note About Images