The Gardeners' chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1877) (14597888198)

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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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zed lor the fragrance imparted.Another specimen is flourishing on the wall outside,but it is most appreciated when grown under glass, a show house. A large permanent iron frameworkis also to be put up over the Exhibition ground. Wealso learn that the exhibition announced to take placeon the 27ch inst. at the Town Hall, will be held inthe gardens on the above date. The vitality of popular errors is a feature as marked as it is unpleasant. One of these errors, aswe believe, is the statement that the Eucalyptushas any special power of averting or destroyingmalaria, apart from its rapid growth and trans-piration, and the improvements in the condition ofthe soil consequent on planting. As an illustration ofour remark, we refer to a statement by a corre-spondent of Niitme that he and many others knownto him had suffered from malaria in the very heart ofa Eucalyptus forest. Bet if the anti-malarialqualities of Eucalyptus are open to doubt, whatshall we say as to the ridipulous statement that
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Fig, 117.—carpet bedding on a vine border at Cleveland house. the Potato disease, has turned his attention also tothe devising a process of photographing direct on thewood, so that the engraver may follow Natures ownlights and shadows. The processes hitherto employedhave all been more or less unsatisfactory, but if wemay judge from the samples of Cryptotvpe, asMr. S.MITH calls it, which have been submitted tous, success seems within Mr. Smiths reach. ACryptotype of the Rev. M. J. Berkeley on wood,enlarged from an ordinary ^atU de visiter is certainlyan extraordinary reproduction. The Dale Testimonial has not thus far obtained such attention from growers of the Chry-santhemum as we think it is entitled to ; but as theenthusiasts in the autumnal flower are now every-where galheiing in force, perhaps advantage will betaken of the circumstance to promote a good cause.We are advised that the subscription list will shortlybe closed, therefore those who contemplate subscribingwill do well