Identifier: gardenerschronic15lond (find matches)
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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ich is to take place at South Kensington on Tues-day, April 19. Schedules may be had of the honorarysecretaries, Mr, Dodwell and Mr, Douglas, Sow Thick 1—This is the necessary advice that the wholesale seedsmen request the trade to giveto their customers. The harvest of certain articleswas a small one in iSSo, and with small crops willoften come a want of germinating power in the seeds,which is invariably an outcome of the cause, orcauses, which led to the scarcity. Beets, Carrots,Endives, Lettuces, Onions, and Radishes, need to besown thickly; and the patience of the gardener mustbe exercised while he waits for a fair growth. Seedsthat are harvested through bad weather germinateslowly and irregularly, and more than ordinary careand patience is requisite. The wholesale seedsmencarefully test the percentage of growth of all articlesthat come into their warehouses before being sent totheir customers, and a second trial is often given. It January 22, 1881.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE, 113
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FjG, 22.—PINUS QRENVILLE^. qONE REPUCED ONE-SEVENTH; LEAVES AND SEEDS NAT. SIZE. (SEE P. 1I2.J 114 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (January 22, :88i. is the appearance of the samples, and the growthsbelow the average, that have called forth the advicegiven above. Let us hope that the series of badharvests came to an end with iSSo, and that the pre-sent year will be more iavourable than that justclosed. If this be so, the grower, dealer, and con-sumer will have much reason to rejoice in concert. East Anglian Rose Society.—We are informed Ihat at a meeting of gentlemen interested inthe culture of the Rose, held at Ipswich last weclc, itwas resolved :—That a Society be formed of Rosegrowers (amateur and professional) in the counties ofNorfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, to be called the EastAnglian Rose Society. That the object of thisSociety be to improve and encourage the culture andlove of the Rose in the three counties named. Thata meeting be held each year in some principal townin one of th

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