Identifier: americanjournalo51869bost (find matches)
Title: The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion
Year: 1867 (1860s)
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Publisher: Boston : J.E. Tilton and Co.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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lons of water: apply this through the fine rose ofa watering-pot, and it will destroy every sign of vegetation, and after a showerrender tlie gravel as bright as when just put down. The walk should not betrodden on when newly wetted, as the vitriol will destroy the shoes. Notes and Gleatiins^s. 103 New Plants. — We copy from The Floral World the following : —ErytJn-oniuvt giganteutii. Gigantic Dogs-tooth Violet (Bot. Mag., t. 5714). —Liliaceas. The handsomest of its race hitherto introduced to this country. Itis a native of North America. It is a tall herb, the leaves dark green, blotchedwith dark brown ; flowers in a scape of two to four, white with gold-yellowcentre. Aristolochia ringens, Gaping-flowered Birthwort (Bot. Mag., t. 5700). — Aris-tolochieae. A magnificent stove-climber from the plains of Santa Cruz, in NewGranada, where its roots are esteemed as an antidote for snake-bites. It is atall, slender, perfectly glabrous plant, with orbicular-reniform leaves, of a pale
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ERYTHRONIUM GIGANTEUM. ARISTOLOCHIA RINGENS. green color, and flowers from seven to ten inches long, pale green, marked andreticulated with dark black purple. The perianth is a ventricose sac, two and ahalf inches long, woolly inside ; the tube is divided into two very long lips, oneof which terminates in an ovate or reniform blade. Cochliostc7na Jacobiajium^ General Jacobis Cochliostema (Bot. Mag., t. 5705).— Commelyneae. A magnificent epiphyte, combining the foliage of a giganticAnthurium, with masses of inflorescence, which for size, delicacy, and beauty oftints, cannot well be surpassed. The leaves are three to four feet long, four tosix inches broad, deep green, edged with brown. The peduncles are as thickas the finger, white, tinged with pink, bearing an immense panicle of flowers,which are delicately tinted with pink and purple colors. The plant is a nativeof Ecuador. Lycaste Barringtonice^ van grandiftora (Bot. Mag., t. 5706). — A fine varietyof an old and favorite orchid.

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