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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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dto plant chiefly those, so as to obtain in the arti-ficial landscape the bold and majestic appearanceof a natural wood, or, as Goethe wrote, ImGrossen gros. Thinly scattered among these, Tilia, Platanus,Acer, Salix, and Betula, should be planted, andin the larger plantations Fagus, Uliuus andyuercus arranged in small groups or singly, andin swampy ground Alnus in variety. The bad practice of most villa gardeners incutting up the lawn into small divisions by theformation of numerous fljwer-beds is justlycondemned, and an illustration of such a spoiledlawn is given from a photograph. The chapter on the treatment of shrubs fromtime of planting and subsequently, contains muchuseful information. In regard to evergreensthe author statts that it is not the cold whichinjures or kills, but the varying temperaturesin the months of January and Iebruary, fromwarmth by day to great cold by night; and it isalways advisable to plant in half shade, thus 292 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (May 13, )9X->
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