Identifier: gardenerschronic35lond (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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ring it up on their roots. For mixing withlight loam for potting Strawberries, clay is of greatvalue, and so it is used, in the same way with manureor leaf-mould for growing Melons, which like stiffsoils, but in either case it should be such of it as hasbecome ameliorated by exposure to the weather.Some gardeners, no doubt, have too stiff and un-workable a kind of clay, and long for the lightermateiiul, but the remedy in their case lies the otherway, and road scrapings, leaf-rakings, and rubbish-heap ingredients, properly and continuously employed,will soon effect an improvement in the staple. -/. S. CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS.—This fine old plant hasbeen in bloom here for six weeks past, at the easternend of the conservatory, where it covers a largetrellis. The plants may continue to bloom for sixweeks longer. It is about 30 feet high, is a veryfree grower, a most abundant bloomer always, and iswell suited to train over and round the window-openings, or on any bare place, the foliage being
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Fig. 64.—saxii-raga pyeenaica vah, superba. (see p. 330.) vitality, grew quickly on being sown. P. grandifolius,which was the seed-parent, was fertilised on January 1,1888, and the seed capsule was ripe on June I, and wasat once sown. A nice let of young plants came upabout the end of September, and some of the plantsare now \h inch high, and look promising. Thefoliage is very much more like that of CalantheVeitchii than of Phaius grandifolius. I may men-tion that the seed was sown on the soil in which theplant of Phaius was growing; and before sowingthe seed the soil was loosened on the surface, and theold plant placed on a shelf in the stove, where thetreatment adopted was that usual with Phaius. Ithink that this is by far the easiest and most certainway to raise any seedling Orchids, and I feel quitesure that seeds of many of our best Orchids, if theycan be obtained, would come up well, and growmuch better thus raised than if they are speciallytreated. I have proved that Odontogl

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