. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. come to the show-house, which was gaywith Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, Celosias, &c., with theroof clothed with Mandevillasuaveolens. Leaving theshow-house we next enter the plant stove—the last divided into four quarters by two central walks—onelengthwise and the other crosswise—with the usualboundary walks and indispensable borders betweenthe latter and the walls, and, like the place in generalis in first-rale order. Tourist, ABELIA TRIFLORA. This beautiful Indian shrub has been spoken ofin terms of the
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. come to the show-house, which was gaywith Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, Celosias, &c., with theroof clothed with Mandevillasuaveolens. Leaving theshow-house we next enter the plant stove—the last divided into four quarters by two central walks—onelengthwise and the other crosswise—with the usualboundary walks and indispensable borders betweenthe latter and the walls, and, like the place in generalis in first-rale order. Tourist, ABELIA TRIFLORA. This beautiful Indian shrub has been spoken ofin terms of the highest praise in our volume for 1S60,the specimens there referred to having been grown atGlasnevin, whence also those here illustrated () were received a short time ago. The Glas-nevin plant was raised in 1S47 from seeds sent byMajor Madden from Simla, and Wallichs specimens,iirst described, were from the highest mountains ofNorthern and Western Kumaon towards the Hima-laya. It grows into a large shrub, and bears a pro-fusion of delightfully fragrant flowers. The late Fig. 34.—Al-ELIA TRII-LOKA : FLOWEKS WHITE AND TINK. The nexl and last house in the range is the Straw-beny-house, now filled with Tomatos, and the backwall draped with well-fiowered plants of AbutilonBoule de Neige, whilst in another part of the housea batch of Cockscombs showed to advantage. Pro-ceeding from this house we enter, at the opposite sideof the walk referred to above, a range of vineries—vineries which, upon Mr. Hinds taking charge of thegardens two years ago last spring, he found to be badlyaffected with Phylloxera, and which so soon as theVines had been cleared of their crops, he tackled witha determination to completely eradicate the disease,and this Mr. Hinds expresses himself confidently ashaving succeeded in doing. Considering what hehas done with that object in view, together with thepresent vigour and general appearance of the Vines,he may reasonably form that opinion—
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