The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . wering shrubs; patches of Golden Elder,variegated Privets, and other coloured foliage-plants were noted; and among the Conifers,quantities of Larch, Spruce, and other popularkinds most in demand. Every part of the large extent of the place iswell kept, and free from weeds or unoccupiedground, for as soon as a quarter of trees is cleared,it is at once prepared for a temporary crop until dious ones, so far as the space admits of this beingdone. Like other London nurserymen, the firmsees the necessity of
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . wering shrubs; patches of Golden Elder,variegated Privets, and other coloured foliage-plants were noted; and among the Conifers,quantities of Larch, Spruce, and other popularkinds most in demand. Every part of the large extent of the place iswell kept, and free from weeds or unoccupiedground, for as soon as a quarter of trees is cleared,it is at once prepared for a temporary crop until dious ones, so far as the space admits of this beingdone. Like other London nurserymen, the firmsees the necessity of removing eventually furtherfrom the evil effects of London fog and found in a house devoted to the cultivationof Cypripediums, than which few plants withstandfog and smoke better, a choice collection ofhealthy young plants, among which were varieties of C. callosum, also C. c. purpuratum, C. Arthuriasum, and C. cenan-thum superbum, C. A. de Lairesse, a cross betweenC. Curtisii and C. Rothschildianum ; fine robustplants of C. grande, C. insigne Sanderae, and. Fig. 155—weeping beeches at ashwick hall, gloucestershike. (SEE P. 396.) required for planting again; in that manneraround that might otherwise be unoccupied isnow cropped with Potatos, or good culinary Peasfor seed. The offices and seed warehouse are inthe town, and the whole connected by telephone. Messrs. W. Bull & Sons, still famous emporium of new plantshas been greatly curtailed in area of recentyears, much of the land once occupied by rangesof glasshouses having been covered with flats,and as a consequence the present proprietors haveconcentrated the show and culture houses on thenorth side of the Kings Road, and are replacingthe worn-out houses with new and more commo- others. In this house a plant of Peristeria elai awith three flower-spikes, an unusual number, wasremarked. The old house in which Cymbidium eburneumused to be seen in fine condition still contains i scol
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