Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Volume 3F. Warne & Company, 1897 - Chromolithography |
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Common terms and phrases
18 inches high annual anthers Azalea bell-shaped bracts Calceolaria calyx centre COLLINSIA colour compost corolla corolla-tube corymbs Cultivation cuttings cymes Description of Plate downy drooping enlarged Europe feet high five five-lobed Flowers bright Flowers large Flowers white foot high fragrant fringed funnel-shaped garden varieties genus Gloxinia Greek greenhouse grown hairy Half-hardy Hardy perennial herbaceous hybrids inches long Introduced from North July June to August June to September Leaves heart-shaped Leaves lance-shaped Leaves oblong Leaves oval lilac loam lobes named in honour Natural Order North America oblong-lance-shaped ovary panicles perennial perennial herbs pink pinnate plants pots Principal Species propagated purple purplish racemes Radical leaves Rhododendrons roots rosy scapes scarlet seedlings shoots shrub shrubby slender sown species are natives spring stalked stalkless stamens Stem 1 foot Stem branched Stem erect stem-leaves stigma stove sub-shrub terminal throat toothed tube tubular umbels upper violet white flowers whorls winter yellow Zaluzianskya
Popular passages
Page 363 - As soon as the seedlings are large enough to handle they should be pricked out into small pots filled with Potting Compost.
Page 415 - As soon as they are large enough to handle, the seedlings should be...
Page 394 - Naturges. 80A: 44, 1914) took a broad view of this species, recording it as widespread in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old and New Worlds.
Page 474 - The Balsam. — At one time the Balsam was much grown, but it is rarely seen now, though this is a pity. There is much interest in the big rosette-like flowers which crowd thickly on the succulent stems. The Balsam is raised from seed sown in gentle heat in spring, and the young plants, potted in rich soil, are encouraged to grow freely in a light and airy house.
Page 420 - Salpiylossis is usually grown as an annual, seeds being1 sown in gentle heat in March, or in the open border in April ; in the former case transferring to pots for greenhouse culture or planting out in the border after hardening.
Page 386 - Seeds of the perennials should be sown as soon as ripe, in pans of sandy loam, and kept in the greenhouse during the winter.
Page 484 - Germination takes place in a week or ten days, and when the seedlings are about an inch high they should be pricked out...
Page 396 - The species are natives of Europe, North Africa, Western and Central Asia, and Japan.
Page 381 - Illyricum, who is said to have discovered the medicinal virtues of these plants).