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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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ngs any greenhouse plants whose shoots are of aproper size and consistence. In the flower-garden, as we have before remarked, watering is of primaryimportance at this season. Chrysanthemums that were struck from cuttings lastmonth, may now be planted out, retaining a few in pots for the greenhouse orconservatory. It will be advisable to clear away a portion of the flower-stemsthat are produced on the old plants, otherwise they will not flower in perfection.Another sowing of hardy annuals may be made this month, for the purpose ofobtaining a succession of flowers in the autumn. Seeds of any plants that are nowproducing them, and which it may be desirable to save, should be carefully collectedon a fine day, and spread out upon paper to dry. DaJilias will require wateringthis month, but it is better to place some damp, retentive, rotten manure round thebase of the stem, to the distance of one foot or eighteen inches, which willeffectually preserve the roots in a cool and moist condition.
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C/y^/n.j/7/>y///fr, // //-yr///.) 145 COMESPERMA GRACILIS. (slender COMESPERMA.)CLASS. ORDER. MONADELPHIA. OCTANDRIA. NATURAL ORDER. POLYGALE^. Generic Character.—Sepals five-sepalled, deciduous; two inner sepals of the form of-wings, three outerones small. Petals three to five, united with the tube of the stamens, the lower one keel-formed,three-lobed ; middle lobe beardless, entire, or emarginate ; two lateral petals scale-formed, two supe-rior ones alternating with the superior sepals of the calyx. Stamens eight, united into a tube, whichis cleft in front, free at the apex. Anthers bursting by a terminal pore. Fruit capsular, two-celled, spatulate, tapering towards the base. Seeds with a long tuft of hair at their base.—DonsGard. and Botany. Specific Character.—P/aw/ suffruticose. Stems numerous, very slender, twining. Leaves few innumber, linear-lanceolate, bluntish, slightly wavy at the margins. Racemes axillar)-, many-flowered. Flowers very numerous ; wings bright blue

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