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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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shape is a perftut umbrella with anunbranched stem and a dome-shaped head.It came up as a seedling, and soon manifestedits tendency to grow into an umbrella-tree,a tendency which has been fostered, thoughin truth it needs nothinL^ but the removalevery spring of a few brauchlets, which bytheir upward tendency would, if not removed,soon spoil the shape of tlie tree. There isone advantage that the topiary art has, it ensuresadequate treatment of tlie hedges. Whatevermay be said in disparagement of the strange C Y P R I P E D I U M S. The three Cypripediums, of which an illustra-tion is given at fig. 14, were grown in the collec-tion of W. Duckworth, Esq., of FUrton, nearManchester (gr., Mr. H. Tindall), and wereexhibited at the meeting of the Manchester andNorth of England Orchid Society on December 15,190t, when they were awarded a Gold Medal. Plant No. ItotheleftisC. x Leeanumgiganteum,and bore twenty-one flowers, every flower being per-fectly formed, and the leaves rich and vigorous.
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FlQ. 14.—THREE WELL-FLOWERED CYPRIPEDIUMS. vemember the Tews in Mr. Dixons wood atteatherhead will realise how much more interest-ing the extraordinarily diverse natural forms of•*he trees in that place are than any that have•been artificially manipulated. Still, for those sominded, these particular Yews offer suggestionsfor artificial treatment which could readily bej&dopted. Evergreen trees are mostly made use■of for this purpose, and Thuya gigantea wouldBend itself well to these grotesque distortions.Every fruit-grower knows how espalier trees canfee made to assume almost any shape that maybe desired. So, too, natural seedlings often occur which thegardener may utilise in this way. We havedaily in view a Hawthorn of considerable size devices dear to the topiarist. no one will object tothe formation and maintenance in an appropriateposition of a good hedge, and the man who cankeep a peacock or a giant in good order may betrusted with the management of a Yew or Holly-hedg

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