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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, lanceolate; pod slightly twisted. Named from the Greek for red, from the brilliant redcolour of the flowers, which are particularly handsome inthis genus; the plants are small shrubs, usually grown inthe stove, but a few will do well in the greenhouse. &Crista-galli has fine scarlet flowers in spikes, the stalks pricklyand glandular, and the leaves in threes ; this and laurifoliaare natives of Brazil, and will bear the frame very wrell inthe winter; lithosperma has scarlet flowers and stony seeds,Bidwillii, crimson flowers, both natives of Australia;Humeana, nana, and Caffra are from the Cape, the latterhas purple flowers; herlacea and carnea are American spe-cies, the former with scarlet, and the latter with flesh-co-loured flowers. In winter these plants should be placed in a dry situationin the greenhouse and have little or no water; when theyshow flower-buds in the spring, it is a good plan to plungethem in moist heat, when the flowers will be finer : cuttingsstrike readily.
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MiT\belia_ Meisneri FABACEiE. 167 MIRBELIA. Gen. Char. (Decandria Monogynia.) Calyx five-cleft, two-lipped ; pod two-celled, with each suture bent inwards. Named after M. Mirbel, a Erench botanist. An Australiangenus containing the following species of very pretty andshowy greenhouse plants :—M. reticulata, speciosa, pungens,dilatata, rubimfolia, floribunda, and Meisneri, are purple-flowered ; grandiflora has reddish-yellow flowers; Meisneri issmaller than dilatata, but a most lovely greenhouse plant,and deserves to be introduced into every collection; theleaves are very curious in appearance, as they are wedge-shaped, rigid, waved, crisp, and at the apex three-cleft, andof a dark green; the flowers are numerous, red-purple, andof a deeper hue at the lower part of the petals. Theseplants are very desirable for the greenhouse, as they are gaywith flowers in the spring; they require peat or heath-mould and very well drained pots, but the soil must not besuffered to get quite dry. AOTU

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