. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. THE QUEENS SEEDSMEN, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. THE (iiirdcttcr,) (Ulirunick. SATURDAY, JANUARY it, ;SSo. SPRING, SUMMER, ANDWINTER BEDDING. NOTWITHSTANDING all the sarcasticabuse and denunciation that has been,and is still being, said and written againstsummer bedding, there is yet no diminutionof it, but rather a growth, happily in an im-proved form, by the more free use of foliageplants, both as masses and as single their means the gaudiness and monotony,for years so prevalent, have been
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. THE QUEENS SEEDSMEN, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. THE (iiirdcttcr,) (Ulirunick. SATURDAY, JANUARY it, ;SSo. SPRING, SUMMER, ANDWINTER BEDDING. NOTWITHSTANDING all the sarcasticabuse and denunciation that has been,and is still being, said and written againstsummer bedding, there is yet no diminutionof it, but rather a growth, happily in an im-proved form, by the more free use of foliageplants, both as masses and as single their means the gaudiness and monotony,for years so prevalent, have been relieved;but there is yet room for further improvement,more particularly in the way of a more generaluse of hardy plants. And once this is accom-plished, the objectors to the system will havelittle ground on which to found their objection,seeing that if they have not the desired Fars-ley-bed on which to relieve their eyes, theyhave other and more graceful plants ; and thehardy plants would remain all the year round-thus meeting other objections, viz., the transitorynature of summer-bedding, the long season ofbare beds, and the immen
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