The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . nk,Berkhamsted. Experience. SCOTLAND. ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A YOUNGGARDENER. A young Edinburgh gardener, Mr. Adam Sten-house, met with his death in a sad way re-cently. He drank from a bottle containingsome acid and paraffin by mistake for shock of the discovery caused heart failure,although the mixture in itself was not of apoisonous character. DAMAGE TO ABERDEEN injury has been caused to several Aber-deen Gardens. One of those most injured is the tion of the Royal Housing C
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . nk,Berkhamsted. Experience. SCOTLAND. ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A YOUNGGARDENER. A young Edinburgh gardener, Mr. Adam Sten-house, met with his death in a sad way re-cently. He drank from a bottle containingsome acid and paraffin by mistake for shock of the discovery caused heart failure,although the mixture in itself was not of apoisonous character. DAMAGE TO ABERDEEN injury has been caused to several Aber-deen Gardens. One of those most injured is the tion of the Royal Housing Commission, and adeputation from that body is investigating thesubject by personal visits to the fruit-grow-ing districts. They recently visited the Clydes-dale district, and inspected the bothies and otherbuildings occupied by the pickers. Corre-spondent. RANDIA MACULATA. Randia maculata is a striking species whenin full blossom. The plant is really asmall, erect, sparsely branched tree, belong-ing to the Gardenia family (Rubiacese), and i6a native of Tropical Africa. The curious, funnel-. Photograph by II. F. Maemillan,Fig. 37.—randia maculata in peradeniya botanic gardens, ceylon :flowers cream coloured, suffused with reddish-brown. garden of Lord Provost Maitland, where severalfine plots of flowers have been seriously dam-aged, and a number of plants in other parts wereraised and left out of the ground. In the gar-dens of Sir Alexander Lyon, and at other places,much damage has been done. In all cases therewere left signs that the damage was the work ofSuffragists, or of people posing as such. HOUSING ACCOMMODATION FOR FRUITPICKERS. The question of the accommodation pro-vided for fruit pickers and Pctato gatherersin Scotland has been engaging the atten- shaped flowers are from 7 to 9 inches or morein length; they are of a cream colour suffusedwith a reddish-chocolate, the throat and tubeof the corolla being of a deeper brown peculiar flowers are equally striking
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