This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
At the April meeting there was exhibited by Mr. Jamieson, gardener to R. S. Mason, Esq., a beautiful specimen of Cymbidium eburneum, in a 12-inch pot, with about a couple of dozen of its large ivory-white flowers. Another interesting plant was a specimen of Conoclinium ianthinum, trained up to a single stem for about 4 feet, and then suffered to make a round head. It seems just the kind of plant suited to such a mode of training. It was exhibited by Mr. Nelson, gardener to Mrs. Chandler. A number of other interesting plants were exhibited by other growers. Though the articles exhibited at this local society are never numerous, they are generally choice and instructive to those who attend the meetings.
 
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