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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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e planting of the ancient garden, bor-dered with Box hedges, in which I found the Iris.I planted it carefully in my garden, and had thesatisfaction of finding that it was completelywinter-flowering. In size and shape the flowersresemble those of Iris Kochii; I intend to placeit on the market this year, but it is an openquestion whether it will flower in the wintereverywhere. Crocus Imperati nucerensis is a white varietyof the beautiful winter-flowering Crocus. Sev-eral years ago I put C. Imperati albus in com- CLIVEDEN. (Concluded from page 66.) The Long Garden.A paved walk leads from the fountain U-the Long Garden (see fig. 40), whichalthough only divided from the highway toGookham by a wall, forms a charming,secluded retreat. The borders are en-closed in front by excellent Box hedges,2 feet square, and at the back by a varietyof flowering shrubs. Tall examples oftopiary work occur at intervals, and manyof the groups of herbaceous plants are en-closed by Lavender or Rosemary. In sum-
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FlG. 40. THE LONG GARDEN AT CLIVEDEN, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. (Photograph by H. G. Stone, it is difficult to propagate; very few of the cut-tings which are set here can be induced to grow,and I have never seen the seeds. This latter factseems strange, because the plant is, or was, indi-genous to this district. It used to occur quitecommonly, together with the white and rosevariety which I found some years ago, but, in1910, I traversed the whole distance betweenSorrento and Campanella and was unable to finda single plant. Either they have all been col-lected, or the intensive culture of the soil hasdestroyed the condition in which they flourished.It seems strange that a German Iris shouldflower at Christmas, but Iris germanica hyemalisis always in blossom at this time, unless there issevere frost. Some years ago I found this plantin the old garden of the castle at Nocera. Thecastle has a history, not without interest. The merce, but the flowers of this variety are not purewhite—when they fi

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