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  2. Kew or Rare Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, and Flowers.

    POLYOONUM SACHALIENSE.—A tall plant, with very ornamental, dark green, lance-shaped leaves of great size, and red stems bearing erect clusters of small flowers. It is perfectly hardy, and an excellent subject for isolation on ...

    Article : 403 words
  3. Tool for the Removal of Fruit Trees.

    FRUIT trees in gardens are often seriously damaged by cutting their roots with the spade. The roots thus severed throw up sprouts which are difficult to get rid of. We know of bat one cure, which is to remove the earth around ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 146 words
  4. The Garden.

    THE Crown barks are produced by three species of cinchona—C. condaminea, C. uritusinga, and C. lancifolia, all of which are by many considered to be varieties of C. officinalis of Linnaeus; at any rate they ...

    Article : 1,270 words
  5. How to have Plenty of Cucumbers.

    A CORRESPONDENT of the Horticulturist writes:—I had a narrow border, not more than 2½ feet wide, on the edge of a high fence. 1 planted three cucumber hills in the border, and laid some brush—such as is used for pea vines ...

    Article : 2,849 words
  6. Eurycles Coronata.

    THE Eurycles are a genus of the great family of the Ameryllidcacea of the pancratiform group, and are found in the Eastern Archipelago, New Holland and New Caledonia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 197 words
  7. The Public Gardens and Parks of Paris.

    WE have nothing in the British Iales like the Jardin des Plantes. It is half zoological, half botanical, and nearly surrounded by museums containing vast zoological, botanical, and mineralogical collections. The portion entirely ...

    Article : 362 words
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