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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countyof Surrey, none perhaps is more beautiful thanthat comprised in the Caterham Valley. Fromthe railway line of the London, Brighton, & SouthCoast Company, the view in summer time is oneseldom equalled in an English landscape. Oneither side the ground rises pleasantly, until theview is terminated by the hills that seem to shutthis particular valley-scene from the whole world.The sloping hills are plentifully studded with well, Esq., who resides in the Hall, and farms-about 3,000 acres of land upon the j estiteThe park itself is three milesj long, (and ,atthe end of each mile there is a lodge, so thatthere are four of these lodges. Mr. Gre3nwellschief interest lies in the breeding/>f Shire horses-and short-horned cattle, he being very successfulin both. But even so, he must need have a garden/if^itwere only for the comfort and pleasure of theladies of his family. In the supplementaryillustration, our readers may see the west frontof the dwelling-house and the rather imposing;
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FlG. 105.—MARDEN PARK, SURREY. you have suggested, to confirm them; and otheringredients and varying proportions might betested. Such experiments might also lead tofurther developments in the colouring of flowersand fruits. The Royal Horticultural SocietysScientific Committee did, I believe, take this sub-ject up at one time, but so far as I remember,with rather negative results. A. J. Bliss. Horticulture at Angers.—Many of our readers will be familiar with the horticulturalrenown of Angers, and will be glad to learn thatM. Ed. Andr£ has published in the Revue Horti-cole, a condensed account of a lecture that hedelivered lately on the subject, which will be readwith interest. gentlemens residences, some of them old, butmost of them new, whilst all possess laid-outgardens containing choice trees and shrubs, thathave the effect of making the whole valley toappear more or less a garden. If closer observa-tion were made, it would be found that the lanesand fields are rich in smaller

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