Identifier: journalofhorticu05hort (find matches)
Title: The journal of the Horticultural Society of London
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Horticultural Society of London Horticultural Society of London. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of London
Subjects: Gardening Botany Horticulture Fruit-culture
Publisher: London : Published for the Society, by Longman and Co
Contributing Library: Harvard Botany Libraries
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eading habit, so that it is well suited to hang down over stonesor rocks. Leaves dark green, shining, cordate, serrate, slightlydowny. Flowers in one-sided, narrow, leafy panicles, whichsometimes measure more than a foot in length. The branchesof the panicle are hairy, and bear each from three to five flowerswhen the plants are vigorous. Calyx covered with glandularhairs; corolla not quite an inch and a half long, rich dull red ;the tube almost cylindrical ; the upper lip straight, nearly flat,slightly 2-lobed; the lower three parted, spreading at rightangles to the upper. It has so little the appearance of a Pentstemon that it maybe expected to be regarded hereafter as a distinct genus. A hardy little shrub, growing freely in any good rich gardensoil, and easily increased by seeds or cuttings in the usual way.It flowers freely, one year from seeds, and lasts in flower fromJune to October. It is a very desirable, hardy plant. Sept. 12, 1849. NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETYS GARDEN.
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(Pentstemon cordifolius.) ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. XL—Notes respecting a few Ornamental Winter and SpringFlowering Plants. By George Fleming, C.M.H.S., Gar-dener to the Duke of Sutherland, F.H.S., at Trentham. (Communicated March 2, 1850.) As the value of winter-flowering plants cannot at any time bebetter appreciated than when the possession of them gives thegreatest enjoyment, or the want of them is felt most acutely, Ideem it a fitting occasion to make sundry recommendations as towhat to prepare for a future season ; and, in doing this, I hope tocombine past experience with more recent ideas which havebeen suggested by reading, observation, or reflection, all beinghelped along together by necessity. One common mode of proceeding is to make extensive use ofhardy shrubs too early in the forciug season. The objections tothis are, that the display produced by exciting plants at a seasonso very unnatural to them, is strikingly inferior to what theywould create a few weeks later; and a

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