Identifier: gardenerschronic321lond (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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fers are very fine, thebest collection coming from H. Lorberq, Berlin.Two small plans of gardens made and shown bystudents of the horticultural schools for girls atFriedenau are worthy of notice. These are intendedto show the best manner in which an Are (100 squaremetres) of land can be laid out and cultivated. Theidea is to exhibit to the poorer class of Berlin inwhich way the many vacant building-plots in thevicinity of the metropolis awaiting the builder, butwhich can be rented provisionally, can be made togrow vegetables. And with the intention of showingat what cost, and with what profit this can be done,every expense, exclusive of rent, and the cost oflabour, and all takings, aie given. In the technical section, a novelty is shown of awindow - plant cill or board which prevents waterdribbling on the pedestrian when the plants areafforded water. It was exhibited by H. Hildebrandt,of Laukwitz, a place scuth of Berlin. Supplement to the Gardeners Chronicle, Mav 8, 1897. 3 t S> a
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Mat S, 1897.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE, 305 Royal Horticultural Society.—The next fruit and floral meeting of the Royal HorticulturalSociety will be held on Tuesday, May 11, in theDrill Hall, James Street, Westminster, from 1 tofi p.m. At 3 oclock a lecture will be given by Mr.<«. Masske, F.L.S., on Diseases of Plants, especiallyof Orchids. The Crystal Palace Fruit Show of theRoyal Horticultural Society—The subjoined letter explains itself: — I feel inclined to bead myletter Lost, Stolen, or Strayed, £100/for thoughnot Moat, or stolen, the £100 required for theAutumn Show of British-grown Fruit certainly seemsto have strayed into the all-devouring capacity ofthe many-mouthed Diamond Jubilee projects. Youwill remember that when the Autumn Fruit Show,which had been held from time immemorial at theCrystal Palace, had fallen through, the Royal Horti-cultural Society offered to revive it as a Show ufBritish-grown Fruit, with prizes to the value of £250,on condition that those i

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