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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the cultivator;these cuttings should be planted in light sandy soil, plungedin a cucumber or melon frame, and shaded from the sun;they should be watered and carefully attended to whennecessary, and when struck should be repotted, after beinga little hardened. H. corymbosum is also worth growing. TOUENEFORTIA. Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogynia.) Corolla salver-shaped orrotate, naked at the orifice; berry two-celled; cells two-seeded,perforated at the end. Named after Tournefort, a botanist. T. fieliotrqpioides, slSouth American plant, is very like the Heliotrope, and hasalso pretty pale purple flowers; it will bear planting out,but requires the greenhouse or frame in the winter; fruti-cosa has white flowers, and is a shrubby plant from the Ca-naries, as well as angustifolia> with pale blue; velutina andumhellata, both with white flowers, are natives of Mexico.T. heliotropioides is quite worthy of a place in the green-house or garden, as it flowers in profusion from May to Plate irr.
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Arxiebia echioides BORAGINACE^E. 211 September, and grows about two feet high; it has the dis-advantage however of being without the sweet scent of theHeliotrope. It is easily increased by cuttings or seeds. B OR A GIN A CEJE. Exogens, having flowers in one-sided, curled spikes or racemes,sometimes solitary and axillary. Calyx not falling off, with fouror five divisions. Corolla monopetalous, generally regular, fouror five-cleft, imbricated in bud. Stamens inserted upon the co-rolla, equal to and alternate with the lobes. Ovary four-parted,four-seeded.—Herbaceous plants and shrubs; leaves alternate,often covered with asperities, consisting of hairs proceeding froma hardened base; natives principally of temperate climates, andhaving soft, mucilaginous properties. ARNEBIA. Gen. Char. (Pentandiia Monogynia.) Calyx five-parted; co-rolla a long tube, throat naked, with the lobes rounded; anthersinserted within the tube. A. echioides is a very pretty plant, and though sufficientlyhardy to

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