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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ne spores liberated from the fruitingbody to which a Sclerotium gives rise.Late planting is recommended in districtswhere the disease is prevalent, sine© therisks of infection are far greater in theearlier part of the growing season. Othermaladies of the Potato, including thepink rot, clue to a new species of Phytoph-thora (P. erythroseptica Pethybridge), aredescribed in this report, on the excellenceof which the author is to be most warmlycongratulated. We shall look forwardwith interest to the next instalment ofthese investigations, and hope that in itwe may find the solution to the mystery ofthe source whence comes the yearly rein-fection of the Potato by the worst of itsmany enemies, the late blight fungus. Pachira macrocarpa (see fig. 120).—Formany years there has been a fine example of thishandsome tropical tree in the Palm House atKew, and periodically it has produced a crop offlowers, as it did quite recently, when our photo- November 8, 1S13.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 3l*5
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Fig. 120.—pachira macrocarpa • petals white, stamens crimson and yellow. (See page 324.) (Photograph by E. J. Wallis. 326 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (November 8, 1913. graph was obtained. The flowers in their size andcolour are both exceptional and attractive, asthey measure about a foot in diameter ; the strap-shaped petals are white, and the large brush-likecluster of stamens crimson and yellow. Thefoliage is not unlike that of the Horse Chestnut.but it is more leathery in texture. The habitand characters of the tree indicate a close re-lationship with the African Baobab, Adamsoniadigitata. Pachira is a genus of about 15 species,restricted to Tropical America, and is a memberof the same order as Adamsonia, Eriodendronand Bombax. These all have digitate leaves,and are popularly known as Silk Cotton trees,their seeds being surrounded by a quantity ofcotton-like fibre, which is of considerable com-mercial value. The bark of some of them isfibrous, and is used for paper-making and oth

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