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Common terms and phrases&c.—The flowers Achenia acuminated annual Anthers apex beautiful belonging Benth blue Botanic Garden botanist bracteas branched Brit Calandrinia calyx Capsule carpels Character.—Calyx Charlwood's clammy COLLINSIA colour common Convolvulus Corolla corymbs cultivated culture dark purple Description deseribed disk England Engravings.—Bot feet high flowers Fruit Gard genus glabrous Glasgow Botanic Garden grandiflora growing grown hairy hardy heartsease hotbed introduced in 1823 Involuerum kinds know where seeds lanceolate leaflets leaves Legumes ligulate Lindl linear lobes LUPINE nearly Nolana nursery oblong obtuse open border ovate pale panicled Pappus pedicels Peduncles PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA petals petioles pink pinnatifid placentas Plate poppy pots procured produced racemes Receptacle require resembling Rhodanthe roots rose-coloured seed-shops segments sepals sessile showy slender soil south of Europe sowing sown Specific Character Specific Character.—Leaves Specific Character.—Plant Specific Character.—Stem Stamens stem Stigma SYNGENESIA Syst toothed transplanted tube tubular variety white flowers yellow flowers Popular passagesPage 174 - The eternal regions ; lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold ; Immortal amaranth ! a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life... Page 175 - To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er * Elysian flowers her amber stream ; With these, that never fade, the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, enwreathed with beams : Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright Pavement, that like a sea of * jasper shone, Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Page 20 - The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite is soon destroyed, every fibre in the body trembles, the nerves of the neck become affected, and the muscles get rigid... Page 20 - Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely under the influence of the opium talked incoherently ; their features were flushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horribly wild. Page 116 - Liuneus first observed the Tropaeolum Majus to emit sparks or flashes in the mornings before sun-rise, during the months of June or July, and also during the twilight in the evening, but not after total darkness came on ; 4hesc singular scintillations were shown to her father and other philosophers ; and Mr. Page 38 - Petals 4, cruciate, parallel ; the 2 outer, either one or both, saccate at the base ; the two inner callous and coloured at the apex, where they cohere and enclose the anthers and stigma. Stamens 6, in two parcels, opposite the outer petals. Page 100 - It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced in 1795; it flowers from March to May, and must be but sparingly watered after the bloom is over. Page 125 - Blanda is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it was gathered by Sir Joseph Banks; was sent to Miller in 1754 by Van Royen from Holland, and flowered in the Chelsea Garden. Page 51 - Its peculiar habit arises from each of the axillary buds of the main stem, which usually produce a single flower, being developed into a short branch, that * See fol. Page xviii - ... the most interesting features in the green-house, annual plants have great claims to our attention, and should be very extensively cultivated in every pleasure-garden. But the vast number and variety of sorts that are now known in our collections, the whole of which it is almost impossible to introduce into even the most extensive gardens, renders necessary a judicious selection of the best kinds, in order to compensate for any deficiency in number or variety, by the superior beauty of those... References from web pagesTHE LADIES' FLOWER GARDEN OF ORNAMENTAL ANNUALS Collinsia ... cm (Caroline Mary) Jackson-Houlston - 'Queen Lilies'? The ... Jane Webb Loudon botanical prints 1840-1847 GERTRUDE JEKYLL AND THE LATE-VICTORIAN GARDEN BOOK: REPRESENTING ... Bibliographic information
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