Identifier: gardenerschronic81877lond (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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I fertilised numbers of seed-vessels, and thegrowth went forward to the stage even of developingthe ovary the full length of the calyx, the calyx mean-while being full of living petals, which I had to sap-vessel is ruptured, or the sap diverted from itsnatural course, it 50 far afltcts those sleeping buds asto arouse them into life and action, and uUimattlyinduce them to form buds, branches, and leaver.So eisily are these latent buds iniluenced that a slightvariation o( temperature will do it. It is upon thisknown principle that thinning is practised, and by itall pruning should be regulated. The fine, healthy, and vigorous spray that thuscovers the dismembered parts and newly prunedtrees during the first summer after the operation hastaken place, is very apt to mislead those of limitedexperience, and produce fatal error?. The spray thusproduced being well nourished and abundantlysupplied with sap, is so far accelerated in growth asto continue growing in autumn till suddenly stopptd \
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Fig, 145,—agave ellemeetiana. (Flowdy), the latter undoubtedly the best light-edged red as yet diatribued. Of purple Ilcotees the best I have yet seen areZerlina, Alliance, Ann Lord, Alice, Mary, Mrs.Niven, John Delaforce, marvellous for its breadth ofcolour and purity of the ground ; Minnie, Mrs.Douglas, and Silvia, the two latter varieties of Mr.Simonites sent out in the autumn of 1S76. Mr.Simonite also produced a lovely medium-edged purple,named Mrs, Slack, which is likely to surpass thefavourite old variety Mrs. Summerp. Of rose Picotees Mrs. Allcroft, Ethel, Edith Dom-brain, Fanny Helen, Juliana, Mrs. Lord, Miss Lee,Miss Wood, and Mrs. Adams, the latter a varietyfrom Newcastle, most approve themselves tomytaste;whilst of new flowers Miss Homer (Lord) and LadyLouisa (Abercrombie) were very fine, and such as Ithink will win approval wherever seen ; Fairy Queen(Hartley) has also properties which will ensure itsbeing enquired for. extract to mal^e room for the swelling seed, no mat

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