. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . oyal Horticultural Society there stands at thismoment what is probably the most magnificent floral object that hasever been beheld in Europe. This consists of a plant, or we shooldrather caU it a tree, for it is upwards of 20 feet hif;h, of the oldKhododendron arboreum which is now covered with innumerabletrusses o£ deep blood red flowers, realising all that the late wrote of the glorious effect produced by it on the northernslopes of the Himalaya, where vast tracts are entirely covered with 232 JOUBNAL OF HOBTI
. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . oyal Horticultural Society there stands at thismoment what is probably the most magnificent floral object that hasever been beheld in Europe. This consists of a plant, or we shooldrather caU it a tree, for it is upwards of 20 feet hif;h, of the oldKhododendron arboreum which is now covered with innumerabletrusses o£ deep blood red flowers, realising all that the late wrote of the glorious effect produced by it on the northernslopes of the Himalaya, where vast tracts are entirely covered with 232 JOUBNAL OF HOBTIOULTUBE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [ March 80, 1871. it. The specimen in the conservatory, which is daily thronged byadmirers, is now in its very highest beauty. GARDEN DRILLS. We do not remember a Bingle garden crop that cannot bebetter caltivated if sown in rows than if sown broadcast. Rowsallow the hoe to be more effectively used, and to have guttersbetween them for the application of liquid manures, a mode ofmanuring not nearly so well appreciated as it
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