. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. thecollar of the seedling is not attacked with root-rot organisms as compared with untreated seed-lings. F. Fisher and Son, Thornton Heath. Veronica Traversii.— I am enclosingphotograph (see fig. 77) of a fine specimenof V. Traversii growing in the flower gar-den here. It is now 20 feet in diameter and10 feet high, of compact growth, and almostperfect shape. So far as I can learn, this plantwas brought here from New Zealand about theyear 1875 by the late Sir J. Fergusson, Bart.,who was at that time G
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. thecollar of the seedling is not attacked with root-rot organisms as compared with untreated seed-lings. F. Fisher and Son, Thornton Heath. Veronica Traversii.— I am enclosingphotograph (see fig. 77) of a fine specimenof V. Traversii growing in the flower gar-den here. It is now 20 feet in diameter and10 feet high, of compact growth, and almostperfect shape. So far as I can learn, this plantwas brought here from New Zealand about theyear 1875 by the late Sir J. Fergusson, Bart.,who was at that time Governor of New is very evident that the climatic conditionsand soil of South Ayrshire have suited it see that the height of the species is stated tobe 2^ feet only in Nicholsons Dictionary ofGardening. The photograph was taken early inJuly, 1912, and the tree was then in full is a most valuable evergreen, flowering T. Harrison, Kilkerran Gardens, Dailly,Ayrshire. Undeveloped Land Duty.—At the meetingof the Horticultural Advisory Committee of the. Fig. 77. veronica te notice has the usual dark claret-coloured flowers,but the other, a seedling, has much paler, almostpink, flowers. Is not this unusual? I see severalof this batch of seedlings show colour variation inthe flowers, a thing I never noticed before inthis plant. Comishman. ■ William Ford.—The late Mr. Foul, whosedeath was announced in the Gardeners Chronicleof the 22nd ult., was for the last 11 years themanager of the Feltham seed grounds of and Simpson. Before undertaking thischarge, Mr. Ford was gardener for 14 yearsto W. H. Ellis, Esq., Clovelly, Hounslow,where he showed practical proof of his skillas a cultivator of hardy flowers. Whilst he was askilful raiser and grower of a great variety ofhardy plants, Mr. Ford particularly excelled withAntirrhinums, Pansies, and Sweet Williams. Thet rial grounds of a wholesale seed merchant are,naturally, not so muc
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