The Gardeners' chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1903) (14597140579)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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r; amongstwhich were, in the Odontoglossum-bouse, a goodspecimen of 0. Halli with two spikes, twentyflowers on a spike; O. hystrix, a grand batch ofO. Kossii majus; O. triumphans, O. crispum,O. Cervantesii, O. Sanderianum, O. gloriosum,O. spectabile, O. Wilckeanuin, the beautiful O.Rolfeae, with nine or ten charming flowers open ;O. exeellens, O. loochristiense (a fine spike), andhosts of others showing flower, and all looking inexcellent condition. Most of them have been sub-jected to leaf-mould potting. In another housewere some nice pieces of Cymbidium eburneum,C. grandiflorum, &c. In the warm house was a fine show of Den-drobiuins, amongst which were capital examplosof D. Wardianum, D. crassinodc, D. nobile virgi-nale (pure white), D. Brymerianum, D. nobile, D.primulinum ; this latter shows to great advan-tage, hanging down from the roof, and is highly * Janainum primulinum.—Hemsley, in Kciv Buletin,18?5, p. 109; Oliver, in Hook. Ic. Plant., 4 ser., vol. iv ,1895, tab. 2384.
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Fig. 88.—jasminum trimulinum : FLOWERS bright yellow, semi-dotjble. 198 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (Maech 28, 1903. ■was in flower, including several seedlings andthe lovely C. Niobe and C. niveum. A fine batchof Miltonia Eoezlii was in flower, and a lot ofMasdevallias in variety. I think there are tenhouses devoted to Orchids, of which Sir FrederickWigan and his able grower, Mr. W. H. Young,may justly feel proud. In the other houses devoted to miscellaneouscollections are greenhouse and stove plants, ofwhich numbers are grown for house and church■decoration. In one house we noticed a goodbatch of Lilies of the Valley, Narcissus, Lilacs,both double and single ; the old Kerria japonica,•which looks very well forced, and helps to remind■one of the spring. In another house was asplendid lot of Cineraria stellata, and the ordinarylarge flowering variety ; and another was devotedto Primulas. Pot Roses and Azaleas and forcedshrubs filled yet another. In the stove are some good Croto