The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . SUTTONS READING PINK. This charming novelty will, without doubt, become a greatfavourite. The habit of the plant is very compact and free-flowering, resembling Sutton s Ruby King, but iheflowcrsareof a rich salmon-pink colour. The yellow eye is clearly defined,and is surrounded with a narrowband of carmine. The entirestock of this beautiful Primula is in our hands, and has not beforebeen offered to the public. Price, 53. per packet, post-free. Full particulars of SUTTONS CHOICE NOVEL-TTES gratis and p
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . SUTTONS READING PINK. This charming novelty will, without doubt, become a greatfavourite. The habit of the plant is very compact and free-flowering, resembling Sutton s Ruby King, but iheflowcrsareof a rich salmon-pink colour. The yellow eye is clearly defined,and is surrounded with a narrowband of carmine. The entirestock of this beautiful Primula is in our hands, and has not beforebeen offered to the public. Price, 53. per packet, post-free. Full particulars of SUTTONS CHOICE NOVEL-TTES gratis and post-free. The Queens Seedsmen, and Seedsmen by SpecialWarrant to the Prince of Wales, READING LONDON and THE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1881. A SCOTCH IMPROVER. A PECULIAR interest attaches to the nameand history of Lord Kames, from thenovelty of his estate improvements, and fromhis personal accomplishments as a writer andjudge. The customary and ancient methods otincreasing the fertility of the land have beenby means of one or other of the three Ms—manure, mud, or marl. From the time of theRomans the soil has been chiefly fertilised bythe three methods of manuring, warping, ormarling it. Lord Kames, on the contrary,reversed the common practice. As the ownerof a moss of many thousand acres, he sethimself the task of removing the mass of vege-table matter so as to expose the strong landbelow. Having invented a water-wheel adaptedto his purpose, he poured a constant stream ofwater from the Teith upon successive portionsof the land he was engaged upon, and success-fully scoured the moss into the neighbouringstream of the River Forth. The best farms of the present estate ofBlair Drummond, whic
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