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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nburgias, &c. &c. Those of the same description that were rooted in autumn, and preserved instove-pots, may now be potted off singly and placed in peat, where they will soongrow vigorously and make fine plants by the season, for transplanting in April orMay. Inarch Camellias. Bring in, from time to time, Roses, Rhododendrons, Lilacs,and all other plants for forcing, so as to keep up a succession of flowers. Cuttings of some of the more fresh-growing kinds of Ericas may now be putin sand and covered with bell-glasses. The young and tender shoots succeedbest; and it is sometimes necessary to put the plants into the stove for two orthree weeks to force the shoots, so as to make them fit for taking off for cuttings. Cactus Speciosus, Speciosissimus, Ackermanni, and Vandesii, that have beenkept dry and placed in the greenhouse for some time, may in part be removedinto the stove towards the end of the month, where by giving heat and moisturethey will soon show abundance of blossoms.
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177 iECHMEA SUAVEOLENS. (Sweet-smelling Mchmea.)LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. BR.OMELIACEM. GENERIC CHARACTER. iEchmea. (Ruiz, bt Pav.) Bractece sub floribus cyathiformes, spinoso.aristatse, integerrimsevel tri-crenatse. Calyx triphyllo-tripartitus ; laciniis sequalibus, spiraliter convolutis, aristatis,rarius muticis, uno latere oblique dilatatis. Petala 3 calyce multo longiora, obtusa vel acuta,inferne convoluta, basi squamosa, rarius nuda. Filamenta lineari-filiformia, receptaculo inserta,3 petalorum basi adnata. Antheree subincumbentes dorso affixae. Stylus filiformis. Stigmata3 linearia vel subpetaloidea, spiraliter contorta. Bacca ovato-rotundata, parum succosa, trilocularis,loculis polyspermis. Semina placenta? in apice anguli interioris positse affixa, obovata veloblonga, primum basi filo gracili appendiculata, demum nuda.—(Schultes Syst. Veget. vol. vii.part ii. p. 62.) Bracts that are situate under the flowers, cup-shaped, terminating with a spiny bri

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