The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . thesecircumstances, I would strongly recommend that to every two barrowloads of light loam one barrowloadof garden soil and one of cow-dung be added, andthoroughly mixed to the consistency of mortar, andthen laid on the bed, over which half an inch offinely-sifted loam had been previously spread with atrowel or float, finishing off with a perfectly smoothsurface, which hermetically cases the bed with asmooth and, subsequently, firm However,there need be no fears entertained about such a bedi
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . thesecircumstances, I would strongly recommend that to every two barrowloads of light loam one barrowloadof garden soil and one of cow-dung be added, andthoroughly mixed to the consistency of mortar, andthen laid on the bed, over which half an inch offinely-sifted loam had been previously spread with atrowel or float, finishing off with a perfectly smoothsurface, which hermetically cases the bed with asmooth and, subsequently, firm However,there need be no fears entertained about such a bedin the event of its not showing for eight or nineweeks from the time of spawning, for show it will,and, the atmosphere and temperature being as theyshould be, in such quantities and of such a size aswill amply repay for the extra trouble and the time ofwaiting. //. U\ IVard, Longford Castle. Clematis coccinea.—Messrs. Veitch showed, atthe meeting on Tuesday, a flowering plant of Clematiscoccinea, a Texan species, with glaucous 3-lobed or3-foliolate leaves, and bell-shaped tlowers on long. to them, and Ihey were grandly flowering, theirvarious l^right free colours, varying from carmine tomagenta, being very attractive. They are aho finelyin flower just now at Ilothfield, near Ashford, arc certainly well worthy particular attentionwhere good useful early flowering plants are wanted :the varieties are Lady Musgrave, Mrs. Cariiiichael,Irincess Maude, Princess Beatrice, Prime Minister,and William Carmichael {after the raiser), and thelast sent out, Mrs. Gerard Leigh, which produceslarge trusses {fourteen to sixteen flowers of bright rosecolour. By growing a succession they can be hail inflower from November till spring. O. The Synnotias.—The mentioned underthe unpublibhed garden name of Synnotia Walthamiin your issue of last week {p. 370) proves to be , Sweet, Brit. flmc. Card., t. 150—a rarespecies with a much longer perianth-tube than y
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