Identifier: gardenerschronic333lond (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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rmed, cover this limed space withfreshly-eut turves, grassy side down, digging 6 or9 inches deep of the soil from which the turf istaken, using this and peat manure in the propor-tion of four parts of the former to one of thelatter, to form the ridges, when well mixed. Atfirst, a ridge about 15 inches wide and 9 inchesdeep will be sufficient for the plants, if set out at2 feet apart. Make a deposit of soil, to be usedlater at intervals when moulding up becomesneedful, up to within a few weeks of the time ofthe plants having yielded all that it is possible inthe way of Cucumbers. Rochfords Market is stilla general favourite with growers. H. W. Ward. APPLIED BOTANY. One of the four meetings arranged by theTechnical Education Board of the London CountyCouncil in connection with its annual conference perly. as a means of training, and in his subse-quent remarks alluded to the economic value ofthe science. One of the points which be brought forwardin this connection was that of grass below
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Fig. 19.—cone of pinus koraiensis, collected by mr. wilson.(see r. 34.) of science teachers was devoted to Botany.Hence, on the morning of January 10, ProfessorFarmer presided at the South Western Poly-technic. He had much to say on the value ofbotany, even of a systematic kind, if taught pro- Apple-trees, which often delayed their bearing aslong as seven years. He thought that perhapsin interesting children in Nature the question ofthe removal of oxygen by the grass need not beraised, but that the absorption of water by tha 36 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (jANCAtY 17, 1903. herbage that would otherwise get to the rootsmight well be studied. Miss Lilian Clarke, B.Sc, who gave an addresson The Rational Teaching of Botany, explainedthat she was not responsible for the title. She de-scribed minutely how the school garden had beenutilised, not merely for growing plan ts variousorders, but for Nature-study work on the polli-nation of plants. The way in which plants weresuccessfully grown in

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