The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . I couldnot help saying, Well, it was worth all the journeyto see this alone, and it is within the reach ofeveryone who has a garden. It is perfectly hardy,grows very rapidly, and while it lasts, is unsurpassedfor chaste loveliness. Then Mr. Girdlestone hasbeen experimenting on it as a stock, and he speakshopefully of it, especially for Teas. Of this doubt-less we shall hear more by-and-bye. Most of thesingle Roses, of which Mr. Girdlestone has an excel-lent collection, and in which he is an adept, wer
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . I couldnot help saying, Well, it was worth all the journeyto see this alone, and it is within the reach ofeveryone who has a garden. It is perfectly hardy,grows very rapidly, and while it lasts, is unsurpassedfor chaste loveliness. Then Mr. Girdlestone hasbeen experimenting on it as a stock, and he speakshopefully of it, especially for Teas. Of this doubt-less we shall hear more by-and-bye. Most of thesingle Roses, of which Mr. Girdlestone has an excel-lent collection, and in which he is an adept, werepast, but one Macrantha, one of the very finest ofthem all, was still in flower, this has a largepure white flower, the centre filled up with lightyellow stamens. The Moss and other summer flower-ing Roses were also over. The principal feature ofMr. Girdlestones Rose culture at present is, I think,the Tea Roses. Indeed, one could not help sighingas we passed up where the Hybrid Perpetuals usedto be grown so well, and to find Dahlia Street taking their place, and Cabbages occupying it in. Fig. 33.—neobenthamia gracilis, (see p. 272) One is continually coming upon such points. Here,for instance, is a bed of Oenothera taraxicafolia,about which I am somewhat puzzled. I have oneapparently similar in flower which I received under thename of marginata, but its foliage is quite different,and it has an unpleasant habit of getting away fromwhere it was planted and appearing elsewhere. Aplant of it I had has entirely gone from where I placedit, and has travelled under the walk and appeared onthe border at the other side. Here again we comeupon the ubiquitous Shirley Poppies, in their finevariety of colours; and, of course, the Icelandproper and another, P. altaica, with terra-cottacoloured flowers, which goes very well with theIceland. We also came upon a fine plant of the singlePolyantha, which in my ignorance I supposed at firstto be the plant so well known by the photo whichappeared
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