Identifier: gardenerschronic13lond (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
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s curious to note, about four kilometers north of Posen, that on one side of the broad sandy road, where there are some cottages,hundreds of plants of X. Strumarium flourished,whereas on the other open side not a single plant of or other occupations, few of whom can be brought to understand that a trench should be as broad at the bottom as at the top, and who, if this mistake be pointed out, still persist in the blunder. It is not because of any wilful desire to be obstinate that they do the work so imperfectly, but they are as a rule the victims of ignorance and of want of educational training in early years. Nothing can be more stupid or false than the common expression that we are in danger of educating our agricultural labourers too much, for in the most elementary or common avocations, such as intrenching, digging, mowing, and many other acts of labour, the best taught man will always show the highest intelligence, and make the best workman.Such an one will soon perceive that in trenching he
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Fig. 4.—LITTLE ASTON HALL, SUTTON COLDFIELD, THE SEAT OF THE HON. E. S. PARKER-JERVIS. (SEE P. 12.) Egyptian Lentil, which is so cheap and useful an article of food. The true Lentil, however, is, as its name implies, Icnlicular, convex, like a watch-glass,on both sides, while the Bitter Vetch seeds are more nearly triangular; still, when mistakes are made between ??conite and Horse Radish, it is reasonable to expect much more frequent mishaps between the two seeds in question. The Rovi seed of the Greek Archipelago is considered by Mr. Southall to be the Orobus of the ancient Greeks. He tells us,moreover, that the poisonous properties may be eliminated by soaking the seeds in water, and probably by decortication. As the matter is one of some considerable importance, we hope that Mr. Southall will supplement his historical notes on the plant by some experiments on the best way of neutralising its poisonous properties, whether by heat or by soaking, or both. this species was to be seen, though.

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