The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . h the products of French vineyards in foreignmarkets. France at the present lime imports Spanishand Italian wines to supply the deficiencies in herown produce dependent on the ravages of the Phyl-loxera. From California even wine is imported toBordeaux, to be there transformed and re-exportedto California under a French brand. SOKGHUM HALEPENSE.—M. FOLDESSY, of Pesth, writes to us in praise of this grass as a forageplant in warm countries, and especially in sandy soil,where its mode of growth renders
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . h the products of French vineyards in foreignmarkets. France at the present lime imports Spanishand Italian wines to supply the deficiencies in herown produce dependent on the ravages of the Phyl-loxera. From California even wine is imported toBordeaux, to be there transformed and re-exportedto California under a French brand. SOKGHUM HALEPENSE.—M. FOLDESSY, of Pesth, writes to us in praise of this grass as a forageplant in warm countries, and especially in sandy soil,where its mode of growth renders it also valuable inholding up embankments, &c. The climate of theBritish isles would not be suitable for this grass,although in some of our colonies, we believe, it isgrown with advantage. LiBERiAN Coffee.—Mr. D. Morris, the Director of the Public Gardens and Plantations ofJamaica, has published in the form of a pamphlet asummary of what is known as to the history, charac-teristics, and culture of Liberian Cofiee, tliecircumstances favourable to the culture of this t Dk Gardeners Chronicle,] Fig. 84.—MUSA ensete (tue akvssiniax hanana) in tamaica. (see r. 434.] (April 2, 1881, 43^ THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [April 3, 1S81. which was first introduced into commerce by Bull, is the fact that it can be grown onthe plains, where the preliminary expenses in theacquisition and clearing of land are naturally muchlower than on the hills. Though not exempt fromthe attacks of the leaf-disease, it is nevertheless ableto bear its effects much more successfully than theordinary species, than which it is also more prolific. Leopoldima pulchra.—This most elegant Palm, better known in gardens as CocosWeddelliana,evidently does not require so much warmth to keepit in health as is generally supposed, at all eventsduring the winter season. A couple of handsomespecimens, some 5 or 6 feet high, grown in pots, areplunged in the rockery of a Fern-house at Oakley,Fallo
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