. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. for the benefit of future visitors, that a station willshortly be found even nearer at hand, in fact on theMessrs. Waterers own land—the new station being onthe Ascot and Aldershot line, now under constructionand nearing its completion, which runs through thenursery. The one great speciality of the nursery is, ofcourse, the Rhododendrons, which are counted, notby hundreds, but by thousands, and if we saidby tens of thousands we should not be far wideof the mark. They may be seen here in all sizes,fro
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. for the benefit of future visitors, that a station willshortly be found even nearer at hand, in fact on theMessrs. Waterers own land—the new station being onthe Ascot and Aldershot line, now under constructionand nearing its completion, which runs through thenursery. The one great speciality of the nursery is, ofcourse, the Rhododendrons, which are counted, notby hundreds, but by thousands, and if we saidby tens of thousands we should not be far wideof the mark. They may be seen here in all sizes,from the grafted plants in pots to enormous busheswith heads measuring from 25 to 30 feet in cir-cumference, and which lift with balls of eatth * CatasetuvipJiasma.—{,k^. Cataseto gnomo.)—LabelH lobislateralibus semiovatis erectis minutissime ac densissime serru-latis, lobo antico minute triangulo. calcari conico, ovariipedicellati tertiam lequante, callo obtasangulo utrinqiie intusm pariete superior! sub limbo lobi lateralis. H. G. October 20, 1877] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 489. Fig. 95-—a curious seedling uegonia. weighing from lo to 15 cwt. each; to say nothingof thousands of standards 3 and 4 feet in height,and measuring anything from 2 to 30 feet inthe circumference of their heads, all healthy andcleanly grown, well set with flower-buds, and, whatis of more consequence to the purchaser, all short-jointed and wiry, the indelible mark of careful andsystematic transplanting. This regular transplantingof large nursery stocks is an enormous and costly workto the grower, but it pays for doing, and so it is doneas a matter of course, but nowhere better that wehave seen than in the Surrey nursersies—not theBagshot one alone. Theres no mistake aboutit, the Bagshot soil does grow Rhododendrons, andyou find them here in marvellous quantities; andwhat a sight they are in June ! WonderfullyAuriferous, wonderfully diversified in colour, andequally as wonderful their numbe
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