The Gardeners' Chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1895) (14766172432)

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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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strongly advises extensive cultivationof india-rubber and gutta-percha yielding plants.The cheapness of land and labour would make theformer, at any rate, a most remunerative venture.Fibre-plant cultivation would also admirably suitthe natives. Unfortunately, the formidable Tsetse-fly will seriously interfere with the introduction andrearing of domestic stock, while a gad-fly (Tabanuslatipes), the size and shape of a large blue-bottle fly,is also most harassing to hones and cattle. Thoughsaid to be a gTeat scourge in East Africa, the latteris seldom met with in Nsatealand. As regards theTsetse-fly, smearing the animals with a mixture ofkerosene oil and cow-dung, is suggested as a mosteffectual preventive. The West Indian jigger, aburrowing flea, has also just reached the districtsround lake Nyasaa and the upper Shire, having slowlymigrated eastwards from the west coast, where itwas introduced with ballast from Bihia in 1873.Natural Science, (The Gardeners Chronicle, Ocltti r IP, ISib.
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FlQ. 80.—FALL OF ANEVOCA, IN THE FORESTS OF ANALAUAAOTBA, UAPAGA-CAB. ^•be p, 460.) 458 THE GARDENERS1 CHRONICLE, (Octobeb 19, 1895. The Herbaceous Border. , ♦ TELEKIA SPECIOSA AND T. SPECIOSIS-SIMA.The Genera Plantarum changed the name ofTelekia to Buphtbalmum, and as there are only fourspecies of Buphthalmum, that work departs from itsusual habit, aud describes them all, with their syno-nyms. Two of them are very well known, beingcommon garden plants. The type of the genus,B. salicifolium (Lin ), has narrow, lanceolate leaves,described by its name, and a forest of stalks spring-ing from the base to about a foot high, and yellowflowers less than those of a Com Marigold. Thenext generally known as Telekia speciOBa (Bing.) isa very coarse plant, 5 feet or more high, with broad,cordate leaves, and heads several in a bunch, a largedisc, and long, narrow rays, like those of Inulaglandulosa. It is figured in Sot. Mag., t. 3166. Ithas the habit of Inula helenium, and is a good plantto