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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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pro-gresses, if it prove usual, will, I fear, prevent it making a first-class yellow Rose for gardenpurposes, and it may be it will be best underglass. White Hose. HARDY FLOWER BORDER. KNIPHOFIA MULTIFLORA.In Eg. 130 is given an illustration of Kniphofiamultiflora flowering in the Royal Gardens, Kew,only a few days ago. It is in such a seasonas the present that this interesting 6peeiesgets its opportunity to flower, owing to the fact The species is not common in gardens ; a plantflowered in the Cape House, Royal Gardens,Kew, in 1900 ; whilst specimens flowered in theopen in 1909, both in Mr. Gumbletons gardenat Belgrove. Co. Cork, and Mr. T. Smithsnursery, Newry, and doubtless there are in-stances of the plant blooming in most seasons,but rarely so finely as in the present year. KNIPHOFIA SAUNDERSII. This Kniphofia is one of the finest plants for brightening up the herbaceous garden at the end of autumn. A large specimen with 54 spikes of bloom is now in full beauty ; it is bv no mer^
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(Photograph hy E. J. Wallis.Fig. 130.—kniphofia multiflora flowering in the royal botanic gardens, kew. that (like K. Saundersii, mentioned by MrDivers in the next paragraph) it has the habitof flowering so late as November. The generalappreciation the plant receives may be partlydue to the infrequeney that it is seen at its best;but, in any case, the group of plants at Kewhas attracted more attention lecently than any-thing else in the gardens. The species was in-troduced from the mountains of Natal, where itgrows at an elevation of 5,000 to 6,000 feetabove the sea-level. It is interesting as be-longing to a small section of Kniphofias whichhave the individual flowers erect. unusual for the plant to flower at this period,and in some seasons we have had several spikesat Christmas; Kniphofia Saundersii is very simi-lar to K. aloides in general characters, but theflower stems are not quite so rigid, which is animprovement for gardens. BORDER CHRYSANTHEMUMS. The great value of these pl

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