Identifier: floristhorticult21853phil (find matches)
Title: The Florist and horticultural journal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Horticulture Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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, at the very lowprice of 50 cents a year. , The Southern Agriculturist, a monthly journal, devoted to the scienceand practice of agriculture, &c, is published at Laurensville, S. C. Thecontents are excellent, and the getting up of the paper is very creditable. We are happy to announce the commencement of an agricultural journalat Burlington, Iowa. The Iowa Farmer and Horticulturist, Edited byMessrs. J. W. Grimes and J. F. Tallant, has reached its fourth number. Answers to Correspondents.—J. McD. Your pink flower is Sabbatiaehloroides, the orchid is Platanthera (Habenaria) ciliaris* D. B., Utica—You should have sent entire frouds, we cannot judge fromthe pinnae—No. 3, is Asplenium acrostichoides, No. 6 and 8 are Asplenia—No. 7, Aspidium asplenoides—No. 9, Onoclea sensibilis—No. 10, a Botry-chium, the rest we cannot identify without larger specimens. As for booksfor general botany we would recommend Grays Botany of the Northern U.S. Presl is the best authority in Ferns,
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VERBENA., var. Princesse MarianneI BouchaTlat.) THE FLORIST AM) HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. Vol. II.)~ Philadelphia, October, 18537 (No. 10. VERBENA PRLVCESSE MARIANNE, boucharlat.Deprived of descriptive notices and of specimens, we do notknow haw to place this beautiful variety in one of the four primi-tive stocks of the group of Verbena Melindres. By its leaves andinflorescence it would seem to be derived from the Verbena chamce-drifolia, Juss (V, Melindies, Bot. Reg. t. 1184) a species of thepampas of La Plata, which flowered for the first time in Englandin 1828. But M. Decaisne assures us, resting on the authority of M.Vilmorin,this would never have varied from the brilliant vermilion-red which distinguishes its flowers. There remain the V. phlogiflo-ra, Ch amiss, (V Tweeiiana, Bot. Mag. t. 3541,) incisa, Bot. Mag.t. 3623, and tzucrioides, Bot. Mag. t. 3694, also introduced from thevast pampas of the La Plata, and which flowered in Scotland, thetwo first in 1836, the last in 1838. It i

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