 | Philip Miller - Botany - 1754 - 486 pages
...Clijf. Low flirubby Galenia. This is alow fhrubby Plant, rarely growing above three feet high : it is a Native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was brought into the Gardens in Holland. There is very little Beauty in the Plant ; for the Flowers are... | |
 | Botany - 1795 - 338 pages
...appendages of a brown colour. This magnificent fhrub, a principal ornament of the CapeHoufe at Kew, is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was introduced by Mr. MASSON, in 1774 (Ait. Krwj; it flowers chiefly in the Spring, and often during the... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...at the end of August, or beginning of September, and frequently continue in beauty till spring. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was brought to Holland, and in 1692 it was c\iltiv.itc'd M t Hampton Court. This plant U propagated by... | |
 | Sydenham Teast Edwards - 1817 - 422 pages
...of the same disagreeable smell when rubbed or bruised. The present species, the only published one, is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774. Recorded in the Hortus Kewensis as a biennial greenhouse plant, flowering... | |
 | William Nicholson - Arts - 1819 - 432 pages
...at the end of August, or beginning of September, and frequently continue in beauty till spring. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was brought to Holland, and in 1692 it was cultivated at Hampton court. This plant is propagated by offsets,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...spring. The flowers are those of the hemerocallis, but this genus is distinct from it in its spathe. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was brought to Holland, and in 1692 it was cultivated at ilampton Court. AGAPE'. See GAPE. In himself was... | |
 | Robert Sweet - Flowers - 1831 - 434 pages
...cloven. This very curious and pretty plant, which, as far as we can trace, has hitherto been undescribed, is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was brought to this country by Mr. Synnot, who we believe introduced more new and rare bulbs from that... | |
 | Robert Sweet - Flowers - 1831 - 456 pages
...cloven. This very curious and pretty plant, which, as far as we can trace, has hitherto been undescribed, is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was brought to this country by Mr. Synnot, who we believe introduced more new and rare bulbs from that... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - Botany - 1836 - 382 pages
...peat, and may be propagated by dividing the roots. DMA, D. GRANDIFLORA.— This most splendid species is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was received into this country by W. Griffin, Esq. of South Lambeth, in 1825. It grows about a foot high,... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - Botany - 1849 - 492 pages
...SY.VONVMKS. — Erica Linn. E. pulverulenta, Bed/. Eric. Wob. 20. THIS very pretty species of heath is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was introduced into this country in 1820, and is now pretty generally cultivated. The neatness of its habit,... | |
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It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was brought to Holland, and in 1692 it was cultivated at Hampton court. This plant is propagated by offsets, taken at the latter end of June, planted in separate pots, with light kitchen-garden earth,... 
