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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FlC TO.—PflHNUS SUBHIKTEIAA. off the work properly, pass the roller again over native of the mountains of Japan, and appears to :i inches long, ovate, pointed, and toothed, the sown land. If cats or seed-eating birds be be largely cultivated by the Japanese for its each tooth terminated by a gland. The feared, the land should be netted, or protected by flowers. The native name is Higansakura. In are dark, rather dull green above, paler be- black thread supported on thin sticks thrust into this country it promises to be a very ornamental neath, and hairy on both surfaces, especially the soil. W. A. Cook. tree. The original plant at Kew is now 12 feet on the veins. The flowers are borne in clusters of 164 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (MAECH 14: 190S. from two to five, each flower of about § inch indiameter, of a soft rose tint when first expanded,and becoming paler with age. The illustration(fig. 70) will show how abundantly they areborne. In an average season the flowers are infull beau

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