The Gardeners' chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1904) (14795940123)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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st evanescent of all flowers. Nothing could besweeter than this incomparable gem; nothingmore transitory. But perhaps it is all the dearerto ourfond imagination that its life is so brief.An exquisite contemporary of Kosa Harrisoniin my garden is Jeannie Deans, one of themost richly endowed of the famous PenzanceBriars, semi-double, with crimson flowers of the which has much the same colour and character-istics as Margaret Dickson, is the extremelycharming flesh-coloured Clio, raised many yearsago by Mr. Wm. Paul, of Waltham Cross. Notseldom those varieties which receive least atten-tion grow most vigorously and flower most luxu-riantly. A Eose, not less than a Lily or a Carna-tion, may be greatly weakened or even killed bykindness, resulting in what is termed hypertrophy.This is especially true of late-planted andsomewhat delicate varieties, which have re-ceived too many manurial stimulants beforethey have become correspondent with theirenvironment, or in other words habituated to tha
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Fig. 11.—view of the rose gaeden at kings waldex, bury, taken from the top of the church. inclined. They will set to work and enaw roundthe roots of young Poplars, Oiks, and Hollies untilthey either tumble them down or the trees■suddenly wither, and on examining the bae you■will find the water-vole has been there. They donot appear to do this for food, but for downrightsnischief. I put a barrage across a small stream-let here, which dams the water for a distance of150 yards. This forms a delightful home for theToles. They are rather tame, and will allow oneto approach pretty close before they dive into thewater. I call them my little beavers. It isamusing to see them swimming along the water,:and they can run quite as nimbly along thebottom of the stream as they do on dry laud.What a pleasure it must be to an animal in hotweather to be naturally amphibious ! W. Miller,Jierkiwell. biightest hue, and very fragrant leaves. Theartistic contrast created by those varieties isgrandly e