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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 19, 1874 
Seemed to have sprung up full grown in a night, and 
forthwith hastened back > te employer to tell him om 
wo! tale. Great 
actual Thistles, Mischievous ! why, as simply 
us. So men told one another with bated breath. 
But how could it have happened? How could Thistles 
have z up there on that lonely country 
rack, or house, re, 
he tem: 
indeed, spread and rn but there 
was no help for it »—Spread they must, 
bs 
material assistance 
; keeping down the young 
-— A pure white way of Campanuta Iso- 
the 
limited as a wild plant ; it has been 
on montory in the whole world. 
_—— An American 
artifici 
periodical gives a process 
ed in naphtha. PENT 
, five parts of p 
f palversed resin , 
goaletar 
latter two baing first dissolvi 
apars ER 
m sea-weed was 
i ented som 
tess ss in this Feneri by Mr. TC G. YGustIn, bu but 
there was never much commercial result therefrom 
—— CoLcHicuM SPECIOSUM, the finest of pa 
erbaceous ground a 
‘Sis in the h 
eae 
ce, and it is very 
him te i Mr, hei 
a very dwarf, sonnit variety, 
bl plants we allude 
flow till 
said to grow only 
antics s the i mori. dancers $0 the occasional stop- 
pages e procession, the tr treets was 
sectotsty impeded, that the 
pr 
rses, It is very unfortunate that r 
n these degenerate da 
ine and that 
oman nnot 
ays get on without Geka. with 
he Lorp May 
customs,” is 1 upon by many sons as 
horri nce. That ‘‘ rush-b > wakes still 
i of Engl. a singular 
ample of our tendency to cling to the habits of past 
es. have ce ceased to occupy the 
position of importance they ent 4 tt Dora ta 
SHAKSPEARE’S time the Englis 
them. a covering for floors they ha 
seded by carpets, w as- SE r 
i 
dirt, are open to pretty much the same objections as 
those ‘urged against rushes by ERASMUS in a letter to 
Dr. FRANCIS, physician to Cardinal WoLsEY, in ene 
he complains of them as a frequent cause of pestilen 
The annexed rete i a 78) ae 
another acelin invention by M 
OICE, of Horley. 
a pa S G WIRES rok 
NING Peas, Scarlet Runner Beans, &c., as a sub- 
stitute for stakes. The engraving shows four rows of 
eans, each 30 feet long, as they commence cling- 
he od are gaven aw 
é 
et. and tight- 
om wire 
ing one round of the coil to every 12 inches, forms 
nea s to which the Beans cling until they 
reach the pe hen T entwine gos jey ag 
and again cling along the top of the 
d for 
cluster which Sets them against he paS Paa 
Fic. 78,—VoIce’S TRAINING WIRES, 
coer conditions, too, the = ot dry up 
old an y so soon co ey do on 
ick a ‘poles—hich i in most plc are iow difficult 
to get, and seldom last more than 
ELONE ELEGANS is again flowering i 
is still blooming freely. This is an old n a 
plant, but wonderfully useful for cut flowers as bis 
as decorative work, 
PHOFIA MACOWANI, 
— a aad: 
rare species, m tag in the 
It 
— The flowers are 
it 
of the y 
all of the easiest pomi ssible cultivation, and i in 
ea ae pene or di: Rs 
‘fake dan Bier 
, 
asual observ Whe sja a in 
ground looks studded with volten stars. O. € steph 
, as its name implies, inoaii elegant ; the leaves, 
are of pia substance and smooth, g 
k ; 
abo 
or mie months in patos iy and. 
U. re i m ex 
odern garden. oribun 
numerous s, ag are hardy Perennials, and are 
ual floweri m with finely 
V 
tter known ; at prese 
the soil aad ARA are at al 
tain that all the sum 
even that weedy species, O. lactæflora, 
interesting in the open ground. 
tree of aes an steal is given at 
d to be upwards of a old, and is 
pire: PA in so con- 
Revue Horticole, fro; 
= aS 
d 
ad been exerted in ano 
till, bin case is valuable, as showing what ma: 
doni n with a rs generally supposed to poe of 
an Daiane m 
e. > nipae of the Field = oa 
e mentions, ina re 
ical notes made durin 
— DECA e ition 
the su pine rman at Kew. It has ae ba of Avhenine that at Sutah he first saw a beau i 
Stapelia, and with rs of that be | of which many roots were carried o ; 
very six only,” he writes, ‘but all of them are lively at 
m kes some tine Eim this day. Captain GRUBBE, I grepa loaded one 
3 they have 7—9 angles, on these B praana with Lilies that he looked 
€ three-branched peresan like a black Jack-in-the-Green. Over 
The flowers | taken on board the commander of the Na 
rom th e young shoot The Brigade. We rather hope to ise the 
rolla is funnel- ed, 2 inches long and 1} in | world next se with our Sutah ace Xt 
diameter at the mouth, with five trian 
i e | Survey; reo sed Saloon 
attempt to pitarin It a 
ing tw deners wer 
nae. and the pas 
re slender 
(Dr. Bake, Bat, Mae. ) 
— On 
to ‘Farchalb ae are two recesses with 
Palms and other plants, and a row of e 
RAMOSA on either side, which has been gi 
abundance of its pretty spikes of white iiis. ei 
4 
either side of the staircase of the entrance 
o long filled 
words passed , wh 
_ | knife he was into the lower part of the 
-of CORDEROY, who is a yi 
recently be ied. The 
A vigorous young Sepé n Musa Exserz} 
ut to flower, m a 
d End Chic 
ae lene 
tgs Ten, 
bout 20 feet in 
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