Identifier: gardenillustrate91876lond (find matches)
Title: The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches
Year: 1871 (1870s)
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Subjects: Gardening Horticulture
Publisher: London : (s.n.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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it; and that her chiefstimulus to rooting is moisture only, without any ponderous weightof soil. To give the system a fair trial, we want pots, or pans, ortrays, specially prepared for the rooting of plants in water. Ithas been proved in a multitude of cases to be possible, and thenext step in advance may show it to be even preferable to the modesusually employed. D. T. Fisn. Before the war the flowers soaght after by the Parisians were nil namedEugt^uie, Napol»5ou, Hortense, Mathilde, Clothilde, Morny, aud Uouher, but atthe Show the other day, the six names were all changed. The flowers are stillbeautiful nevertheless, and they improve from year to year, though the Prin-cease Murat has become the Duchesse Docazes, and Eugenie is transformed toGambetta. But it is confusing when you ask for a Napoleon III. to receive aJules Simon, or a Dufaure for a Prince Imperial, or a Naqnet for a Duchesse deMouchy, Supplement to The Garden, Office 37, Southampton Street, Covent Garden, London, W i
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TYERMAWS GROUNDSEL (SENECIO PULCHER). June 17, 1876.; THE GARDEN. 573 THE AMATEURS GARDEN. By THOMAS BAINEB.Vines without Fire-heat.^Where Vines are grown in plantliousea and not excited into growth by more lire-heat than is requiredfor keeping frost from the plants, they will be more than usuallylate this season, owing to the long continuance of cold sunlessweather which we have had. In some cases the crop willonly now be large enough to thin, an operation which should beattended to at onoo ; as should also that of stopping and regulatingthe shoots j inattention to the latter is frequently the cause ofunfruitfulness, especially when the Vines are weak. Where toomuch wood is left, the strength of the Vines, instead of being con.centrated in the formation of that which is required for the ensuingseasons crop, is uselessly divided in sustaining a quantity of super-abundant shoots that have afterwards to be out away; if, to assistroot-action, it is considered advisable to let more shoots

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