Identifier: gardenerschronic354lond (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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early in the 19th century, theBanksias and allied Proteas were the mostinteresting. For a time they were popular withcultivators and nurserymen, particularly Messrs. Who bothers about Banksias now? The replyis, no doubt, a Scotch one—who wants to ?They are not brilliant; they have none of thosemake-haste, quick-change qualities possessed bythe most popular of present-day garden plants.Their great time was when Australia was analmost unknown country, whose plants as wellas animals were objects of extraordinary in-terest. The student of form rather than colourwould find the Proteas of Australia good materialto-day, but he is not a cultivator, and thereforehis influence is not seen in the choice of plantsfor the garden. There are good Banksias at Kew still, quitea good collection of them. The enormousspecimens recorded by John Smith in 1863 haveall gone, such as B. australis, 24 feet by 12 feet;B. integrifolia, 22 feet bv 12 feet; B. compar,23 feet by 7 feet; B. Solandri, 20 feet by 10
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Fig. 133.—banksia inteorifolia : flowers sulphur-yellow. (Photograph by E. J. WaUis. fore we can depend upon them coming true fromfieed. Still, it is only a matter of time to obtainas many colours and of as good quality in the■early or winter-flowering Spencers as there arenow in the summer-flowering. It will be asked what use these early-flowering•Spencer Sweet Peas will be to English gar-deners. If planted in the kite summer andgrown in an airy, cool greenhouse, they willflower during the winter and early spring, and ifplanted in the open ground they will bloom sixor eight weeks earlier than the varieties nowgrown. For warmer countries they will, how-ever, absolutely supersede all other varieties of•Sweet Peas; they bloom with us in two or threemonths from sowing the seed, and by plantingthem in succession a supply of bloom can be had Low and Co., Clapton, and Mr. Knight,Chelsea. Both employed their own collectorsto send home seeds and plants of these and otherAustralian nov

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