The Gardeners' Chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1895) (14579671899)

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Title: The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gardeners' chronicle (London, England : 1874)
Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, ornamental
Publisher: London: (Gardeners' Chronicle)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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bits were arranged. At 1 oclock the exhibitionwas opened by the Mayor, who, in his speech, whichshowed how truly he was a gardener in heart,touched on some of the exhibits, and especially onthe praiseworthy display made by the cottagers andallotment gardeners, which he said formed one ofthe most satisfactory proofs of the beneficial resultsof these shows, which had now been running at theAbbey Park with increasing success for ten of thethirteen years which had elapsed since the skill ofMr. John Bubn had redeemed it from an unsightlymarsh. A great crowd of visitors flocked to see theshow, which embraced many very fine exhibits, two ofthe best being a grand display of Begonias by Messrs.Wabe, and of Caladiums by Messrs. John Pee» &Son. In our next issue we hope to give a fulleraccount of the show. THE U8EFULNE88 OF GARDENING.—SpeaklDgat the Hawarden Flower Show Mr. Gladstoneremarked :— You may depend upon it there is an / SUPPLEMENT TO * 1 HE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. Aug. 10, 189E.
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Angr^cum pellucidum, in the Garden of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. August 10. 1895.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 150 immense deal to be done in thia country by drawingforth the bounty of old mother Earth in detail. Itis all very well to talk about machinery—and therewas a time when people uied to think that the steamplough was going to drive hand labour out ofexistence—and undoubtedly in manufacture theadvances of machinery have been astoniahing; butas regards cultivation of the earth, a a regards gardencultivation, as regards all small cnltivation, dependupon it there is more room than ever there was forboth adding to the store of the beautiful productsof Nature, with the capacity of producing which Pro-vidence has bountifully endowed the soil, andlikewise of increasing, and largely increasing andconsolidating, the efforts and advantages of rurallife. The use of gardens, the universal provision ofgardens, is a matter of the greatest importance tothe country. It is of the greatest impo