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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nts aresocial beings, and are impatient of the cold shoulder :and with true instinct pine away and decay, and pre-sently the languid waste of life is found inarticulo mortis* Area-courts are sometimes nearly loosely and in an unworkmanlike fashion, A crock-boy in a respectable nursery would have stood appalledat such a spectacle. We were asked if we wanted tobuy, and by a supreme effort withheld speech andpassed on. Many of these plants will exist, a fewmay flourish, but the imperfect work seen in the pot-ting must operate as a disadvantage to plants grownin London windows. Mr. Wildsmith, of Heckfield Place Gardens, andothers have shown us how much harassing these plantswill stand when used solely for winter gardening.Planted out in beds at the end of October, and liftedagain in the middle of May, and placed in nursery plan-tations for the summer, the plants yet keep fresh andnice; they make but little growth, because the roots aretrimmed a little at each time of planting, and if they
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Mc,M^^ Fig. 96.—aerides crassifoliUiM. sorrowful protest against so much cruel disregard.People who do their gardening in this sorry fashionhave missed the emhusiasm which respects andministers to the wants of plants. Boxes of the usual flowering plants have had a badtime of it, even when well attended to, the sun waschary of its invigorating, brightening beams, dullweather can hardly be anything else llian hostile toI/jndon gardening. In all probability the plants arescarcely hardened ofl enough before being placed inthe boxes ; and by the time they have recovered thecftects or the check, the summer is advanced and thefloral service is necessarily short. Any one walkingabout the London streets can hardly fail to be struckwith the great advantage of the hardy evergreen plantswe have so often advocated as most deserving of use forfilling window boxe?. Aucuba japonica, for instance,is bright with variegation, and clean and efftcLive in brimful of such plants, that look as if they were

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