Identifier: floralcabinetmaIIIKnow (find matches)
Title: The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Knowles, G. B. (George Beauchamp), 1829-1852 Westcott, Frederic, -1861 Baxter, W. Henry, former owner. DSI Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI Bradbury & Evans, printer Day & Haghe, printer of plates
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Gardening
Publisher: London : William Smith
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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in several respects, which will be readily perceived by comparison, As regards its cultivation, it succeeds best in a warm part of the greenhouse.It should be potted in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand. The plants are apt togo off when they get to a considerable size, by the small fibres getting around the.sides of the pot; to prevent which the pot should be placed within another of alarger size, and the space between filled up with moss, sand, or soil. It is readilyincreased by cuttings of the young wood placed in sand and in a gentle heat. For the derivation of the generic name, see an interesting account of thediscovery of the original species, by Labillardiere, in vol. 2, p. 18 of the Flor. Cab. The specific name varium was applied in consequence of two or three varietieshaving been raised from the same seeds, one of which had the leaves nearly freefrom spines. Fig. 1, standard; 2,2, wings; 8, inflated keel; 4, calyx; 5, calyx with thesegments removed to show the germ and stigma.
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