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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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ostas large- as the earliest ones, and it w ill be noticed in general. The figures shown in the illustiationare those of Mr. Anthony Waterer and Mr. Geo.Paul, the latter gentleman leaning on hisumbrella. VEGETABLES. BOLTING CABBAGES.Wht there should be in some directionsgreat complaints as to autumn-planted Cabbagesbolting off prematurely to flower, literally re-verting to their natural or primitive habit of Favourite, and Flower of Spring, Meins No. II.,and Veitchs Lord Beaoonsfield. The two last-are later than the others. By far the greater bulk are Flower of Spring,evidently one of the safest Cabbages to grow that>is in commerce. Soon after seeing this batchXvisited Messrs. Sutton & Sons Beading seedfarm, where they have some 20,000 Cabbageplants put out, of many varieties, for ordinaryseedmens trials, and where also very interesting-information could be found as to the habits ofvarieties in the spring. Now several years prac-ticial experience with many varieties of Cabbages
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Fig. us. (From a photocjrapfi by II. J. Wright,-A FIXE PLANT OF THE PEERLESS RHODODENDRON PINK PEARL IN FLOWER IX SUNNINGDALE PARK, BERKS. that there is an excellent truss of the very large,delicately-coloured flowers on almost every shoot.Two larger plants of the same variety have beenrecently in flower in Baron Sir Henry Schrodersgarden at the Dell, Egham, and during the pre-sent week we have seen it in bloom at Dover HouseGardens, Eoehampton (gr., Mr. J. F. Mi-Leod),where there is a bed containing upwards of a dozenplants of Pink Pearl. A spray of flowers fromSir Trevor Lawrences garden v/as illustrated inthe Gardeners Chronicle, July 28, 1900, p. 03. The view reproduced at fig. 149 represents oneof the principal roads through the nurseries ofMr. Anthony Waterer, Knap Hill, near Woking,a nursery which is famed for the cultivationof Bhododendrons and for trees- and shrubs annual form, and yet from others not a word ofcomplaint comes, seems explicable only on thesupposition that vari

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