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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oody climbers,they will be found to grow and flower more freely in it than when mixed withone-third peat, the universal compost of writers, though given up long since bythe best cultivators. If the loam is too stiff, or is apt to get hard in the pots, alittle peat is absolutely necessary to keep it open; but in nine cases out of ten alayer of peat and loam on the top of the pot is quite sufficient. The Petreagrows freely from cuttings of the young or old wood, if placed in a brisk bottomheat under a hand-glass. The generic name Petrea was given to this plant by Houston, its discoverer,in honour of Robert James Lord Petre, a great patron of botany, who died ofsmall-pox, when a young man, about the year 1742. Peter Collinson, in a letterto Linnaeus, published by the late Sir J. E. Smith, in the Linnean correspondence,speaks of the death of this young nobleman, as the greatest loss that botany orgardening ever felt in this island. The specific name volubilis refers to its climbing habit.
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71 D END ROB IU M FIMBRIATUM. (Fringed Dendrobium.)LINNEAN SYSTEM. _ NATURAL ORDER. No. 109. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. ORCHID ACE/E ; TRIBE MAtAXIDE^E. § DENDROBIEA GENERIC CHARACTER. Dendrobium. (Swartz.) Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lateralibus majoribusobliquis cum basi producta columnae connatis. Petala sepalo supremo ssepius majora, nuncminora, semper membranacea. Labellum cum pede columnae articulatum vel connatum, sempersessile, indivisum vel trilobum, saepius membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum. Columnasemiteres, basi longe producta. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per paria collateralia. Herba?epiphytes, nunc caulescentes, nunc rhizomate repente pseudobulbifero. Folia plana, sajpiusvenosa. Flores solitarii, fasciculati vel racemosi, speciosi. (Lindley). Sepals membranaceous, erect, or spreading, the lateral ones larger, oblicpie, and connatewith the lengthened base of the column. Petals more frequently larger than the upper sepal,sometimes smaller, always membranaceous

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