Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo08paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1841 (1840s)
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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aking into account the influence of peculiar localities and circum-stances, we anticipate that great good will be effected. Facts, rather than opinions,should constitute the subject of such communications, which may be sent to anysuitable or favourite periodical. For ourselves, we shall gladly profit by anyinformation on this topic. Tender annuals may be sown towards the end of the month, in either frames,pots, or beds covered with mats or canvas. Dahlias, too, can be started for pro-pagation. In neither instance should niucli heat be applied, but a gradual andvigorous growth induced. The out-door operations for the month arc pruning, layering Roses, &c., removingsupcrflunus suckers from about the rootsof flowering shrubs, digging over the bordersthat have not before been turned, preparing beds for summer flowers, exposing allcovered plants on fine days, propagating hardy trees and shrubs, and numerousother matters which are too minute or too well known to be individuallv noticed.
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. ./ja/ffA/J (^ 07ta i/iM^I^-l • BATATAS BONARIENSIS. (burnos ayres batatas.) class. order, PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. CONVOLVULACE.ffl. Generic Character.—Calyx of five sepals. Corolla campunulato. Stamens inclosed. Style one.Stifima capitate, two-lobed. Ovarium four-celled, or only three-celled by abortion.—Dons Gard,and Botany. Specific Character.—Plant an herbaceous climbing perennial. Root a bulb-like tuber. Stemstwining, extending twenty or thirty feet. Leaves, on old plants, deeply di\ided into seven lanceolatesegments ; those on younger specimens having only five lobes, smooth. Peduncles bearing one ormore flowers. Calyx sliort, with oblong sepals. Corolla deep pink. Large, handsome. Synonyme.—Ipomcea bonariensis. The genus Batatas is very nearly allied to Ipomcea, and constitutes one of themodem divisions into which tliat old and well-known group has been broken up.There does not appear to be any difference in the habits of the plants or thestructure of t

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