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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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possess a greenhouse or conservatory of a sufficient height,will find their Cmnellias much benefited by being planted out in the bed or borderof the house, for by this treatment the plants never sufier from want of water,and are rendered infinitely superior in every respect to those grown in pots. It isbetter, however, to allow them to attain a moderate size (three to four feet high,and buihy in proportion) before they are thus planted, otherwise, if planted tooyoung, they would gTow too luxuriant and straggling, and be a much longertime before they flowered. The drawing of this handsome variety was obtained at the nurser) of Messrs.Young, Epsom, in the month of April in the present year, the plant flowering whenlittle more than a foot high. It is worthy of remark, as an incitement to British horticulturists to greaterindustry in raising new varieties of this magnificent genus, that in some of theContinental gardens more than two himdred distinct and beautiful varieties arecultivated.
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^/e Y/MY/j/e-^y-i^/y, /^■///^6/u:a//r7. 173 PHYSOSTEGIA IMBRICATA. (iMBRICATEO PHYSOSTEGIA.)CLASS. OllDER. DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA, natural order.LABIATjE. Generic Character,—Calyx tubular when the flower is cxparided, inilated after florescence, with aboutten obscure veins, either with five nearly equal teeth, or truncate and scarcely dentate. Corollatubular, much exserted, inflated at the mouth; limb of two parts, upper lip nearly erect, paitiallyconcave, entire or emardnate, lower one spreading, trifid, lobes rounded, the middle one frequentlyemarginate. Stamens four, those in the upper lip ascending, lower ones very conspicuous. Aniliersapproximate, two-celled; cells parallel, distinct, open. Style bifid at the summit, lobes subulate,crowned with stigmas. Achenium dry, smooth. Specific Character.—Plant an herbaceous perennial. Stems erect, slightly branched, quadrangular,nearly smooth. Leaves opposite, sessile, oblongo-lanceolate, acute, serrated. Flowers terminalspicate, im

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