The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . e, and distinctly blotched with pure white on thetwo lower petals. An exceedingly effective variety. I may add to the above notes that, having beentold by a horticultural friend (whose opinion Iusually hold in the very highest estimation) who hadvisited M. Lemoines garden in the autumn of 1889,that the flowers he saw there were so much largerin size, and brighter in colour, than those borne bythe same varieties when grown in my garden, that hehardly recognised them when he saw them afterwardswith me,
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . e, and distinctly blotched with pure white on thetwo lower petals. An exceedingly effective variety. I may add to the above notes that, having beentold by a horticultural friend (whose opinion Iusually hold in the very highest estimation) who hadvisited M. Lemoines garden in the autumn of 1889,that the flowers he saw there were so much largerin size, and brighter in colour, than those borne bythe same varieties when grown in my garden, that hehardly recognised them when he saw them afterwardswith me, I, this autumD, made the journey to Nancy,specially for the purpose of seeing for myself whetherthis were so or not, and whether Irish-grown flowerswere really so inferior to those grown in sunny Franceas they were said by my friend to be. I am pleasedto be able conscientiously to assert that, whateverthe French flowers may have been in 1889, those Isaw there this year were certainly not finer orbrighter-hued than those in my own garden. Theexcessively severe and most abnormally prolonged. Fig. 70.—the white comet-aster. Harry Veitch, opened first flower on August 15,is rather a slender grower, with flower-spike ofmedium height, with medium-sized flowers irregu-larly disposed on the spike, and of the darkestshade of scarlet yet seen in this race, resemblingthat of M. Duchartre of last year. The lower petalsare blotched with creamy-white, but the unfortunatedepression of the top-centre petal, inherited from itsSandersi parent, and only markedly seen in this onevariety of this set, prevents the beauty of the flowerfrom being fully seen. Goliath.—Opened first flower on September 20,nearly 6ix weeks later than any of the other sorts,and is a good vigorous grower, with large tubularand not lully-expanded flowers of a deep shade ofrosy purple, evenly flaked with carmine, and thelower petals veined with white. It may be that theextreme inclemency of the weather at the late seasono
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