Identifier: gardenerschronic0318gard (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gardeners' chronicle (London, England : 1874)
Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, ornamental
Publisher: London: (Gardeners' Chronicle)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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ally preferable for streetplanting, but they are not easily attain-able, as the nurserymen do not keep themin stock. Crataegus linearis (if that be theright name ?) and the ordinary round-headedfalse-Acacias are well adapted for the purpose.Pyramidal trees may also be employed with ad-vantage. Pawlonias are much used in Paris,but would be hurt by spring frost in London.Ailanthus makes an excellent spreading tree bythe Seine, and does not grow too large in thesecircumstances. Here is a hint for our florists and market-dealers. Along the quays not only may well-grown plants be bought for a small price, butalso small baskets (say, half a bushel) of goodpotting-soil can also be obtained. All who haveto do with amateur gardeners, or who live ingreat cities, well know the difficulty there is ingetting proper mould. The Parisians havesolved the difficulty. The meeting last month of the five Academies T3 r> x; n c O raS>npi> C/5 w Pi z n w > JO aw Cda»11o a a ow 2So
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November 9, 1895.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 553 which conjointly form the Institute was a grandspeotaole. The President of the Republio wassurrounded by the ministers and ambassadors infull tenue, the Aoademioians wore their green-embroidered coats and cocked hats, the doctorsand professors their gorgeous and variously-coloured robes. Horticulture was representedby M. Leon Say, the President of the NationalHorticultural Society of Franoe. English sciencewas adequately represented by the President ofthe Royal Society in dootors robes, and byseveral other representative men. The wholesoene greatly resembled an Oxford Commemor-ation, but with this very important difference,that whilst noise and rowdyism oharaoterise thebehaviour of too many of the undergraduates inour universities, the students gathered at theSorbonne were quiet as mice in spite of theprovocation afforded by an outrageously longaddress from M. Jules Simon, which it wouldhave been preferable to have taken as read, aswhen

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