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Identifier: gardenerschronic337lond (find matches)
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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The flowers were step some fresh source of interest was aroused, andit was surprising to find so many plants thrivingwithin the limits of the wild garden, the soil ofwhich consists of light sandy loam and abundanceof leaf-mould. The loam gives evidence of thepresence of iron, and to this I attribute theunusual intensity of colour in Prunus Pissardi.Berberis stenophylla, Pyrus floribunda, and otherflowering trees and shruljs. The double-blossomedCherries and Plums were very beautiful and ingreat variety. Those sent from Japan some CHINA ASTERS. The illustr.ation at fig. 115 has been reproducedfrom a photograph taken in the seed trial groundsof Messrs. Webb & Sons, at Kinver, Staffordshire.The bed in the foreground of the picture consistsof varieties of the type known as Victoria, whichhas large, finely-formed flowers composed of im-bricating segments. The type is obtainable inmany shades and hues, or in distinct colours,and is among the most excellent Asters for usein flower-beds.
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Fig. 115.—bed of victoria astek. tossing their golden heads in the sunlight andbreeze just as he described. Probably the lateMr. Wilson had the lines in his mind when heformed the long bank and planted the Daffodilswith lavish hand. I fancy that in his later dayshe could say— For oft when on my coucli I lie,In vacant or in pensive mood,They flaeh upon tliat inward e_veWhich i.s the blis3 of sohtude ;And then my heart with plea.sure fills,And dances with the Daffodils. Lilium auratum, L. giganteum, and otherspecies were growing vigorously, some inpartial shade, which seems favourable to them.Colcbicums were in vivid green, showing thes-eed-pods of their autumn flowers amidst theirkixuriant foliage. Anemone nemorosa Robin-soniana and Iris tingitana were blooming inperfection. As I passed over a little rusticbridge thesweet-scentedCape aquatic Aponogetonmade itself evident by its numerous blossoms and■delicate perfume. Fine clumps of the greatfoliage plant, Gunneramanicata, were gr

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Gardening
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