Irish Gardening

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The nailing down of species after species allowed of more attention being paid to difficult and Obscure plants, and these were also mastered one after another, as one grew more expert. Access to botanical literature became more important, and eventually I found it best to get typed out the original description, and other full descriptions of every known species, except where I had already easy access to the books concerned. The magnificent botanical libraries at Kew and the British Museum furnished the materials necessary to do this completely. The present state of the business on which I entered so lightly is that my whole list of some plants grown or examined fresh has boiled down to about 130 species, to which must be added about 15 Species more which still await identification. Some Of these - notably tho e contained in an interesting package of seed kindly collected in Yunnan by Rev. Father E. E. Maire - are still immature; others have not yet been induced to flower, in spite of efforts at home kindly supplemented by others at Kew, Wisley. And Glasnevin. Another season will, it is hoped, suffice to run down most of these, when they will be, like all those which have preceded them, figured by my friend Miss E. Barnes, and a full description drawn up. So far eight Species new to science have been definitely recognised, and these have been named and are about to be described in the Journal of Botany. The material still remaining will undoubtedly yield some more new species, and when this is worked out the full results, with a figure of every species found to be in cultivation, will be presented to the Royal Horticultural Society for publication. I shall conclude by saying that the study of the Sedums proved quite absorbingly interesting, although most people would not consider them as being a very interesting group; I am sure a similar study Of any Of the other numerous garden genera which stand in need of revision would prove equally fascinating, and I would

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• Gardening

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243635641
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 90 Mo

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