The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . on being soaked in water iseasily separated, and extended or drawn outdiagonally exhibits the appearance of a fine net lace,from whicli it derives the name of Lace-bark ladies of Jamaica are exceedingly dextrous inmaking caps, ruffles, doyleys, fans, and other fancyarticles of the bleached bark. Cork and many otherfibrous barks have not been noticed iu this li. Sim/iioiuls, discussed the matter together, and it was determinedin the first place to examine all the bulbs in theborder;
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . on being soaked in water iseasily separated, and extended or drawn outdiagonally exhibits the appearance of a fine net lace,from whicli it derives the name of Lace-bark ladies of Jamaica are exceedingly dextrous inmaking caps, ruffles, doyleys, fans, and other fancyarticles of the bleached bark. Cork and many otherfibrous barks have not been noticed iu this li. Sim/iioiuls, discussed the matter together, and it was determinedin the first place to examine all the bulbs in theborder; and three autumns ago we took away somecaitIoa?s of earth and they were all exposed to the cause of the misery was apparent roots of the Elm had dived beneath the founda-tion of the sunken wall, and had come up victoriouson the other side of it—and what a work of mischiefthey had managed to bring about! No wonder itwas that Lilium auratum looked very uncomfortablewith a tough thong of roots going close alongside of it—or that h. Washingtonianum was verv far from. Fig. 113.—cattleya skikkeri with 200 flowers : grown dt o. o. whioleit, esq. : flowers rosy-purple, (see p. 684.) Lawang bark (Sideroxylon Zwargesi ?) to clearmuddy water, so as to render it drinkable; it acts ina similar manner to the clearing nut, Strychnospotatorum. The bark of Quillaia saponaria, a colossal tree ofChili, is rich in saponine, and thus valuable fordressing wool and silk. It is much used in Franceand Belgium, and occasionally appears in commercehere. There are many other fibrous barks which have acommercial value, such as that of the Mulberry(Broussonetia papyrifera), for the paper manufacturein Japan; that of the Daphne longifolia and , for the same purpose in Nepal; and ofAdansonia digitata, which has been imported from LILIES. I happened to hit upon a very simple ideawhich seems to me to be of some use in Lily grow-ing. It came about in this way: owing t
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