The Gardeners' chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1881) (14597501550)

Identifier: gardenerschronic16lond (find matches)
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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thepotency of maiden Briers to produce thesweetest and most magnificent Rose blooms ?And if youth has such power and quality amongBriers, why not also among Strawberries ? Andit has, as most cultivators of any consider-able experience will readily allow. Anothergreat advantage arising out of this run-ning these two crops abreast, is a gain of a The results of thisjmode of croppingjmay, there-fore, be briefly summed up thus :—A perfect andheavy crop of Onions, fruit of the highest qualityfrom the yearling runners, a magnificent cropthe second season, and an early clearance ofthe ground in good time for another crop. The Late Mr. J. C. Niven.—The fourth general meeting of the Hull Botanic (harden Com-pany was held on Nov. 30, and the report of thedirectors, after deploring the death of the latemanager (Mr. Niven), referred to his valuableservices in connection with the undertaking; andstates that it had been the express wish of manyof the shareholders in the old gardens to give Mr.
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Fig. 151.—courtyard ok hinchingbrook house, (see y. 751.) the Strawberries. As early in June as thesecan be taken off they are planted out, onerow between each two rows of Onions.These grip the mellow soil at once, andmake such rapid progress that by the timethe Onions are fit to harvest the Strawberrieshave taken full possession of the ground.The Strawberries may be planted at 9 or iSinches or 2 feet apart. When so closelyplanted every other one might be lifted earlyin October lor potting. It would be difficult tomeet with such plants in pots as those fromrunners seen on the Onion ground this season.Mr. Allan plants at fruiting distances atonce, and judging by results nothing could bemore successful; the Onions, seen in quantities) month or six weeks in the crop of runners.Early runners are the very basis of success ingrowing the .Strawberry in pots and out ofthem ; and who has not felt the vexations ofhaving to wait, and hunt for them on old plantsamong masses of foliage. But thes