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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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he Gard. Chron. for March 29, 1913, p. 209.we re-printed particulars of the OfficialGuide appointed by the President of theBoard of Agriculture and Fisheries toconduct parties of visitors round the col-lections contained in the garden, plant next year has been fixed for November 10,11, 12. Edinburgh Chrysanthemum Show. —At the recent show of the Scottish HorticulturalAssociation the Silver Medal offered for thebest new Chrysanthemum was awarded to thevariety Daily Mail. Messrs. Wells, the exhi-bitors, inform us that owing to the ticket beingreversed the name appeared as Mrs. TreshamGilbey. Acquired Characters in Trees.— Professor Englers investigations on the influ-ence of place of origin of seeds on the characterof the plants produced therefrom have led himto conclusions of considerable interest and im-portance which are summarised in the QuarterlyJournal of Forestry (October, 1913). Amongthese conclusions are the following : The heightof one and two-year-old Scots Pine seedlings
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Fig. 135.—mutisia ilicifolia : colour of the flowers pale mauve. combing of branches in spring. Mutisia is agenus of Composite inhabiting the higherranges of the Andes of South America. About40 species are known, every one of which islarge of flower, by which we mean, of course,flower-head. Royal Horticultural Society.-The next meeting of the committees will be held onTuesday, December 2, in the Vincent SquareHall, Westminster. At the 3 oclock meetingof the Fellows a lecture on The Principles ofInformal Garden Design will be delivered byMr. E. White. Horticultural Club.—A house dinner oftho club will take place on Tuesday next, Decem-ber 2, at 6.30 p.m., at the Hotel Windsor,Victoria Street, Westminster, when Mrs. JuliaL. Henshaw will deliver a lecture entitled ARamble Along the West Coast of Vancouver houses, and museums, and to point out objectsof particular botanical interest. We are in-formed that the scale of charges has been re-duced as follows :—From half-a-crown to six-p

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