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	Muskegon, MI - Society, News, Education, Health
		Colorful garden in downtown Muskegon maintained by Michigan State University certified Master Gardeners and inspired by the artist Monet.
		The WMCW, formerly the Muskegon Symphonic Band, was founded in the fall of 1979 as a volunteer organization dedicated to performing quality instrumental music for community events.
		Considered one of the country's premier art museums for a town the size of Muskegon.
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		Monet Garden · cached · Colorful garden in downtown Muskegon maintained by Michigan State University certified Master Gardeners and inspired by the artist Monet.
		Muskegon to Milwaukee Cross Lake Ferry Service · cached · Information and archives related to the Muskegon to Milwaukee cross-lake ferry service.
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	The Devilfinder Search Engine - Siemens Archives - Chronicle: 1847 - 1918 - Finding Stuff Since 1979.
		The Gardeners chronicle and agricultural gazette: ; ISSN 0261-3441...
		Accessible and lucidly written, the various chapters chronicle a...
		A chronicle together with a little romance regarding Rudolph...
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	Bennett Family Pages
		This meal would have cost the princely sum of 24/- (£1.20p or about US$2.00) per head and your hosts would have been the Worshipful Company of Gardeners.
		However we don't know where this banquet, and just over two dozen others others up to October 1896 actually took place, before the book started to chronicle the Trocadero itself.
		What we do know is that on the same night as the 1894 Press Luncheon is an entry for J. Lyons, a cousin of the Trocadero's owners, who lent his name to the famous company and played an active role in its development.
	www.bennett-family.dsl.pipex.com /troc.shtml (867 words)

	Notes default
		This variety was first published by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in the Gardeners' Chronicle in 1880 as Vanda parishii var.
		He sent plants back to the younger Reichenbach who described it in his honour in the Gardeners' Chronicle in 1867 as Vanda parishii.
		Ernst Pfitzer transferred it to his new genus Hygrochilus in 1897 in Die Naturlichen Pfanzenfamilen on account of the lip being movable while attached to the column.
	www.yonggee.name /Notes/Hygrochilus_parishii.htm (867 words)

	Cornell Cooperative Extension
		A Web site produced by Cornell's Department of Horticulture reaches out to home gardeners and profiles more than 4,100 varieties rated by the gardeners themselves.The Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners web site is currently profiled in the Cornell ChronicleOnline.
		Helene Dillard, Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, is featured in the Cornell People section of this weeks Cornell Chronicle.
		Enables people to improve their lives and communities through partnerships that put experience and knowledge to work
	www.cce.cornell.edu (195 words)

	William Robinson
		There Robinson became Foreman of the Education Department, began to write reports of gardens for the Gardeners� Chronicle, and in 1866 was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
		A pugnacious journalist, Robinson wrote each edition around an enemy: in the first editions, the formal gardeners of the mid-nineteenth century (among them Joseph Paxton); from the mid 1890s, the formal gardeners of the century�s end, especially Reginald Blomfield; after World War I, the proponents of topiary.
		Robinson�s most important book, The English Flower Garden, was first published in 1883, and continually revised until its fifteenth edition in 1933.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/robinson.htm (195 words)

	Native Garden Tour - Jensen garden
		Designed and installed by the gardeners, Anni and Carol's garden offers visual pleasure throughout the year.
		The gardeners pride themselves of having created a âbug paradiseâ and many birds come to feed and nest there.
		This diverse garden, which has been featured in Sunset Magazine, the S.F. Chronicle, and photographed for EBMUD's âPlants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Climatesâ, contains 130 species of native plants, and hundreds more species of ornamentals and edibles.
	www.bringingbackthenatives.net /gardens/Jensen (195 words)

	William Robinson
		There Robinson became Foreman of the Education Department, began to write reports of gardens for the Gardeners’ Chronicle, and in 1866 was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
		Robinson’s ideas changed over the years, but, as he became older, he back-dated his revised tastes and created an image of himself as a single-handed rebel against the degenerate taste of the mid nineteenth century.
		His father, a land agent, deserted his family while Robinson was a child.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/robinson.htm (526 words)

	Democrat and Chronicle Day In The Life of Canandaigua
		Back then, between 40 and 50 gardeners tended Thompson's plants and flowers.
		After her death, it was the citizens of Canandaigua who came to the aid of Sonnenberg after the gardens had endured years of neglect.
		Tending to the mansion and gardens is a labor of love for most who work there.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /homes/community/canandaigua/story06.html (526 words)

	NORML Home / News Archive / 1999 / Politician Advocates San Francisco Hemp Gardens
		The San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners, a nonprofit agency that teaches gardening skills, supports Leno's proposal, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
		Leno requested the city attorney's office to draft regulations allowing local agencies to grow the crop downtown.
		City Supervisor Mike Leno believes he's found the ideal place to cultivate hemp: the nonprofit gardens of San Francisco.
	www.norml.org /index.cfm?Group_ID=4005&wtm_format=print (526 words)

	The Stanhopea Pages; The Literature; edited 22 April 2004
		Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin (1897) "__ Lueddemannia sanderiana __," in: Gardeners Chronicle Series 3, 22, p.138 [now considered to be Lacaena bicolor ]
		Friedrich Klotzsch (1854) Stanhopea connata, in: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 22: 226.
		Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1926) " Stanhopea lietzei," in: Archivos de Botanica do Sao Paulo.
	www.houstonorchidsociety.org /Stanhopea/Stanhopea_TheLit.html (526 words)

	Herbal Encyclopedia - R
		Further reference to the Gardeners' Chronicle, of 1847, shows records of the varying results of eating the young inflorescence, producing no ill-effects in some cases and serious illness in others, and a case is recorded of severe sickness attacking a whole family after partaking of the leaves boiled as a vegetable.
		In 1853 we find the question again raised.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/chaney/191/id118.htm (16847 words)

	Saving Graves
		FORREST, RICHARD (1848): ‘Kensal Green Cemetery&; in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 437.
		It was originally known as the London Necropolis or Woking Cemetery.
		The selection is intended to assist the reader with recommendations for further explorations of the background to the subject and provides technical information on acceptable methods of restoration and conservation.
	www.savinggraves-uk.org /england/London/index.htm (582 words)

	Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
		Darwin, C. "Effect of Salt-Water on the Germination of Seeds." Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette 47: 773.
		It is ironic that Darwin chose common cultivated and garden plants for his flotation experiments and not the tropical beach species which are marvelously adapted for sea dispersal.
		Darwin, C. "On the Action of Sea-Water on the Germination of Seeds." Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society 1: 130-140.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /pldec398.htm (582 words)

	All about flowers - LONDON PRIDE, Saxifraga umbros
		London, of the firm of London and Wise, the celebrated royal gardeners of the early part of the last century." It should therefore be designated London's pride, from the name of the raiser, as one of the finest bedding geraniums was called Hibberd's pet by the same rule.
		Howard, in the Gardener's Chronicle--to have been given to this latter plant (Saxifraga umbrosa) in reference to the person who introduced it into cultivation, Mr.
		Where there is any considerable extent of gravel walks, the sweepings should be regularly sifted and saved, as they constitute the best of "grit" for rock plants, and to mix with loam in potting.
	www.aboutflowers.org /londonpridesa_xbj.htm (582 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Exhibitions: John Day Scrapbooks: Bulbophyllum dayanum
		He sent a specimen to H G Reichenbach who published its description in the Gardeners’ Chronicle in 1865, naming the plant in honour of the man who sent him so many unusual orchids over a period of 25 years.
		This orchid with its curious hairy flowers was collected in the lush rainforests of the Burmese mountains.
		Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Exhibitions: John Day Scrapbooks: Bulbophyllum dayanum
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /exhibitions/johnday/pages/jds_09_041.html (78 words)

	Matthew References
		(Includes Matthew's 1860 letter to the Gardeners' Chronicle, which includes many extracts from his 1831 book Naval Timber and Arboriculture.)
		Wells, K. The historical context of natural selection: the case of Patrick Matthew.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/matthewrefs.html (78 words)

	Solitude in Tahoe's Emerald Bay / Kayakers can slip into reserved spot at secluded boat-in camp
		In the spring of 1929, 200 skilled carpenters, stonemasons and gardeners set up camp along the shore of Emerald Bay, hewing timber by hand, forging hinges and fireplace screens, carving crossed dragon heads on the roof beams, and seeding the sod roof.
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		The boat camp was built on the site of the old Emerald Bay Resort, a collection of cedar holiday cabins that operated during the period Knight lived in Vikingsholm-- which meant she could no doubt hear the laughter of its guests wafting across the water on a still summer night.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/29/TR259767.DTL (1382 words)

	Herbal Encyclopedia - R
		Further reference to the Gardeners' Chronicle, of 1847, shows records of the varying results of eating the young inflorescence, producing no ill-effects in some cases and serious illness in others, and a case is recorded of severe sickness attacking a whole family after partaking of the leaves boiled as a vegetable.
		The whole plant is bitter and aromatic, of an acrid sharpness, but the juice is cooling and astringent, and of use as a wash in burns, inflammations of the eye, and also in sores and cancerous ulcers - hence one of its old names, Cankerwort.
		It is used with success in relieving rheumatism, sciatica and gout, a poultice of the green leaves being applied to painful joints and reducing the inflammation and swelling.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/chaney/191/id118.htm (16847 words)

	ringtone88.com, A Deadline to Die for
		The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen
		The Man with One Eye: A Tale from the Ghost Hunter Chronicle
		The Cemetery: WITH Freeze Tag AND The Fever (Point Horror Co
	www.ringtone88.com /ukbook/102/index.html (159 words)

	Darwin Correspondence Project: Introduction to Volume 5: 1851-1855
		In particular, he undertook to determine the ability of seeds to withstand the effects of salt-water and of plants with ripe fruit to float, also drawing the botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley, his friend Hooker, and various readers of the popular journal the Gardeners' Chronicle into the study.
		He investigated other potential means of distribution, particularly the dispersal of seeds and ova by fish, birds, insects, and other animals.
		In part to test Gärtner's views concerning decreased fertility of hybrids, Darwin began in the spring of 1855 a series of hybridising experiments with more than thirty varieties of peas.
	www.lib.cam.ac.uk /Departments/Darwin/intros/vol5.html (159 words)

	Ascog Hall Victorian Fernery and Garden - The Fernery
		Using the Gardeners' Chronicle as a guide, a new collection of pteridophytes (ferns) was planted in a style evocative of the original planting.
		This semi-burial in the ground allows the fernery to be unheated and yet be suitable for a wide range of sub-tropical vegetation.
		David Mitchell of the R.B.G.E. first viewed the fernery, his reaction was one of delight, and an agreement was reached whereby the R.B.G.E.'s involvement would be comprehensive.
	www.ascoghallfernery.co.uk /fernery.htm (159 words)

	RNZIH - Horticulture Pages - Change in the NZ Home Garden
		Wakefield, F. The Gardeners Chronicle for New Zealand.
		Felix Wakefield's advice in 1870 to avoid eucalypts in shrubberies gives some indication of the size of what could be included in a Victorian shrubbery (Wakefield 1870).
		Felton Mathew's property in Auckland had a lawn with inset flower beds, sloping down to a shrubbery consisting of mixed natives and exotics (Cooper 1972: 28).
	www.rnzih.org.nz /pages/NZgardens.htm (159 words)

	Lucies Farm Ichiban (Number One) Christmas Box
		The Gardeners Chronicle broke the news of the giant tree on Christmas Eve, 1853 --- 151 years ago.
		After the holidays are over, it's a perfect storage container for Christmas china, Christmas ornaments, and lots of treasured Christmas memories.
		The tree was named the Wellingtonia in the U.K. in honour of the Duke of Wellington who had died the previous year.
	www.luciesfarm.co.uk /acatalog/ichiban_hamper.html (159 words)

	William Robinson
		There Robinson became Foreman of the Education Department, began to write reports of gardens for the Gardeners’ Chronicle, and in 1866 was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
		Robinson’s ideas changed over the years, but, as he became older, he back-dated his revised tastes and created an image of himself as a single-handed rebel against the degenerate taste of the mid nineteenth century.
		William Robinson was born in County Down, Ireland on 15 July 1838 and died in East Grinstead, Sussex on 12 May 1935.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/robinson.htm (159 words)

	CHT 4111, 揟he Chinese Novel: Dream of the Red Chamber
		The unfolding intensity of their relationship draws much of its poignancy, however, from the powerfully told chronicle of the Jia clan’s decline, and the cousins’ youthful resistance to the family’s corruption and oppressively patriarchal values.
		The Dream’s scope includes characters from virtually every class and profession (maids-in-waiting, stewards, gardeners, cooks, nuns, actors, officials, members of the imperial family, gamblers, thieves, etc.).
		CHT 4111 explores the social and intellectual culture of traditional China through a 120-chapter novel known variously as Dream of the Red Chamber and Story of the Stone.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/cchenna/CHT4111B.htm (1463 words)

	Saving Graves
		FORREST, RICHARD (1848): ‘Kensal Green Cemetery’ in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 437.
		The Brookwood Cemetery Society is a voluntary group dedicated to the preservation, history and appreciation of the Cemetery.
		It was originally known as the London Necropolis or Woking Cemetery.
	www.savinggraves-uk.org /england/London (1463 words)

	Orchid History Reference Papers - 2 Orchidaceae :: Orchid History Reference Papers - 2 Orchidaceae books, reviews and more
		R M Hamilton "Orchid History Reference Papers - 5 The Gardeners Chronicle Index to Orchid History 1841 - 1846".
		R M Hochmuth "Proceedings of the 1995 Bioengineering Conference Held at Beaver Creek Colorado June 28 - July 2 1995 Bed Seriesn Volume 29"
		Featured: Orchid History Reference Papers - 2 Orchidaceae - R M Hamilton.
	www.sciencefictionclassics.com /351518r_m_hamilton.html (1463 words)

	New Releases - Updates and Additions of New York Books
		His book is a critical resource for beginning and experienced gardeners, and is loaded with gardening folklore, homespun tips, and even poems and witty observations, to give the reader practical tips for gardening in the 21st century.
		Part biography, part chronicle of social life and customs, part memoir, the pieces in this collection draw heavily on the author's experiences as a farmer, but he also wrote for Hoard's Dairyman on a wealth of other subjects, including his trips to Russia, China, Switzerland and New Zealand.
		The author is an organic gardener in Vermont with 35 years of northern gardening experience.
	www.hopefarm.com /update.htm (1463 words)

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