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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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t would be betterto say they have failed to hold their own, muchthe same as the specimen Cape Heaths and otherhard-wooded plants have failed. There is no helpfor this. If one set of plants goes it is replacedby another. Tropical plants can only be culti-vated successfully where there are suitablehouses in which the necessary temperatures mustbe maintained at considerable outlay. It wouldnot be difficult to argue that in these days thegame is not worth the candle. There may be arevival of interest in tropical gardening, and noplantsman would regret it. Taste and fashiondecide in this as in so many other matters.Certainly the Belgians contributed very largelytowards developing and maintaining tropicalplant culture. It would be difficult to persuade one un-acquainted with the vagaries of fashion in horti-culture that the magnificent collections in thegreat annexe at the Ghent Exhibition fail to in-terest any except very few horticulturists, andthey are of the old school. The great demand
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THE GHENT EXHIBITION.Fig. 126.—trevesia sanderi, shown in the first prize exhibit of new plants. a shade of salmon-buff, passing to yellow withage. Stove Plants. Tropical foliage and flowering plants, exclud-ing Orchids, have always been one of the prin-cipal features at a Ghent Quinquennial. Therewas a time, the last quarter of the nineteenthcentury or so. when thev were of most interest,when the great British houses of Veitch,Sander, Bull, and Williams competed withthe Belgian leaders, Van Houtte and Linden,for the honours of the event, and the new plantsthey exhibited, were certain to be afterwardstested as garden plants by the many amateurswho in those days were enthusiastic collectorsof decorative and interesting introductions fromtropical countries. Gradually popular favourhas shifted from these to other classes of plants,and. although a few Belgian nurserymen stillgrow fine specimen Palms, Cycads, Aroids,Bromeliads, and Caladiums, to mention only afew kinds, they do it becaus

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