Identifier: gardenerschronic321lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: J. Gregory.
Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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likewise in the same spanroofed house Lilium longiflorum variety, and the white-flowered Hydrangea Dr.Hogg. Another house was filled with Caladiums of a useful size, with plants of Gardenia floribunda filling a bench at the back of the house. Plants of Bougainvillea speciosa and Stephanotis partially clothed the roof and the back wall. In one, and were slightly shaded overhead by the growths of Niphetos and Celine Forestier Roses. The beautiful Cassia corymbosa loaded with its orange-coloured sprays of flowers, and a plant of Bougainvillea, occupied places on the backwall. Numerous plants of Cliveia miniata invariety were making growth here. Kitchen Gardens. This most important adjunct to the royal residence covers in all about 50 acres, a large portion being enclosed within walls 12 feet high. Having so large an area to deal with, the gardener finds the plough and harrow and the horse-hoe more economical implements than the spade, rake, and hand-hoe to employ in breaking up and tilling the land.
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Fig. 14.—kew palace, in the royal gardens, kew. (Photographed for the Gardeners Chronicle by J. Gregory. See p. 395.) a stove we came across an enormous plant of the Dove Orchid, Peristeria elata, the butts of whose flower-stems measured three quarters of an inch in diameter, a good indication of what their strength had been. Some choice species of Palms were found here, namely, Licualagrandis, a Dsemonorops, some capital Marantas, Dieffenbachia Bausei, several Nepenthes with pitchers, viz., Curtisii, mixta, Dicksouiana, Amesiana, Hookeriana, Mastersiana, Sc. Besides these fine subjects there was theu sual assortment of tropical foliage plants. The now popular Carina occupied a small house, and was representedby a number of the newer continental varieties. The collection of foliage plants overflows into still another house, and hero were the Codiseums (Crotons), Pandanads, Dracaenas, Aculyphas, Ixoras, and other showy plants. Examples of Lilium speciosum were being forced into bloom in a house adjoi

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