. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. The Queens Seedsmen,WORDSLEY, FOLIAGE PLANTS FOR DECORATION. THESE, if they do not rank so high in de-corative value as flowers, which we spokeof last week, yet have their uses, and arc madeto play important parts at Christmas. Some ofthem, as, for instance, the Dracrenas, PandanusVeitchii, Crotons, and others, combine the huesof flowers in their richly-marked foliage, andmake bright and winsome our dwellings andplant-houses when dulness and drearinessabound in the landscape, and the su
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. The Queens Seedsmen,WORDSLEY, FOLIAGE PLANTS FOR DECORATION. THESE, if they do not rank so high in de-corative value as flowers, which we spokeof last week, yet have their uses, and arc madeto play important parts at Christmas. Some ofthem, as, for instance, the Dracrenas, PandanusVeitchii, Crotons, and others, combine the huesof flowers in their richly-marked foliage, andmake bright and winsome our dwellings andplant-houses when dulness and drearinessabound in the landscape, and the sun fadesaway—dwindles away to nothingness^soon after midday, * when with a gu3lOld Winter tumbles shrieking from the hills,His white hair blowing in the wind ! The play of light and shade on Fern-frond andPalm-leaf, and the fresh green hue of Ficus andCyperus, among others make spring per-petually present. The year for the market-grower is one long spring and summer fromJanuary till December. Autumn and winter areseasons that have passed out from the calcula-tions of time. The is now being sent to two favourite
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