. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. tingin groups or massing in single beds will be foundamongst the following : — Brugmansia Knightii,Cannas of sorts, Cassia corymbosa. Cineraria platani-folia, C. acercefolia, Erythrinas of sorts. Eucalyptusglobosus, Ferdinanda eminens, Ficus clastica, Gre-villea robusta, Melianthus major, Monstera deliciosa,Nerium giganteum, Polymnia grandis, Sonchuslaciniatus, S. pinnatus, Ricinus of sorts, Solanummacrophyllum, S. verbascifolium, S. Warscewiczii,S. robustum, S. marginatum, Sparmannia africana,Verbes
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. tingin groups or massing in single beds will be foundamongst the following : — Brugmansia Knightii,Cannas of sorts, Cassia corymbosa. Cineraria platani-folia, C. acercefolia, Erythrinas of sorts. Eucalyptusglobosus, Ferdinanda eminens, Ficus clastica, Gre-villea robusta, Melianthus major, Monstera deliciosa,Nerium giganteum, Polymnia grandis, Sonchuslaciniatus, S. pinnatus, Ricinus of sorts, Solanummacrophyllum, S. verbascifolium, S. Warscewiczii,S. robustum, S. marginatum, Sparmannia africana,Verbesina gigantea, Wigandia caracasana, and W .Vigieri. Calceolarias.—A temporary frame should nowbe made for the reception of the autumn-struck Cal-ceolarias, with 3 inches of well-decayed stable litter atbottom, and on this 4 inches of loam and the time the Calceolarias are required for plantingin their summer quarters the litter will be found tobe one mass of roots. William Gibson, Royal HospitalGardens, Chelsea, S. W. 400 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [March 27, 1880. -<:^n;. APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Wednesday, Mar. 31 f Sale of the whole nf the Specimen. Fxlii-J liition, aiui other Plants, at E. lil;iriiiis,1 lOsq., Pittville, thcltciiham, by Prnthel-oc ( & Mnrris (two (lajs). , April I - i Sale ut koiies. Shrubs, Carnations, Picotccs, _ and other Plants, at t 1 aiiil tQ, tiracech\ theroc & Morri: he City Rooms. 3^III to, tiracechnrch Street, , bj Pro- THE question of the applicability of theElectric Light for Forcing Pur-poses may be considered as solved. To somegardeners it may seem a matter of little conse-quence whether or not the electric beam hasthe same power as the solar ray of so acting onthe green matter of plants as to cause thebreaking up of carbonic acid into its constitu-ents and the evolution of the oxygen. That theywould look on as a matter of scientific interestof little importance to them. Others betterinformed in the prin
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