Identifier: populargreenhous00catl (find matches)
Title: Popular greenhouse botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of the exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Catlow, Agnes, 1807?-1889
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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er, but they always require to be placed in a hothouseto make them push forth buds, and they may then stand inthe greenhouse during their greatest beauty, and be returnedto the stove when the season of flowering again approaches.Cactus (Cereus) speciosissimus, the common South Ameri-can species, is a long, erect, quadrangular plant, with deepfurrows, and rich scarlet flowers; it will blossom in a drygreenhouse, as will several others, but they are better in ahouse devoted to them, as they do not bear the moisture ofatmosphere requisite for other plants, and even if they dothey still want the heat of a stove to make them flower well.Some cultivators succeed in keeping them altogether in thegreenhouse, and forcing them to flower, but they requiremore attention than the amateur can give : one great secretseems to be, that of keeping them quite dry in the winter.The following species of Cereus are recommended for sus-pending in pots in the greenhouse: amabilis, Dalstonii, ele- Plate XVIII
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Cereus Mac Donaldiae CINCHONACE^E. 271 gans,flagelliformis) grandiflorus (Night-blowing Cereus), la-hiatus, Lowii, Mallisonii, Macdonaldii, Scottii, etc. CINCKONACEM. Exogens, the calyx adherent, with a definite number of divi-sions or none. Corolla superior, tubular, with the divisionsequal to the segments of the calyx. Stamens arising from thecorolla and alternate with the segments. Ovary superior, sur-mounted by a disc, usually two-celled. Leaves simple, quiteentire, opposite or verticillate.—Trees, shrubs, or herbs ; nativesgenerally of the tropics ; the properties principally tonic. BOUVAEDIA. Gen. Char. (Tetrandria Monogynia.) Calyx four-leaved, withsome teeth between; corolla tubular; anthers included; capsuletwo-parted, with many seeds, which are edged. Named after Dr. Bouvard, a French botanist. A genusof beautiful shrubs from South America: B. versicolor isgenerally considered a hothouse plant, but sometimes suc-ceeds in the warmest part of the greenhouse, it has reddishye

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