Identifier: populargreenhous00catl (find matches)
Title: Popular greenhouse botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of the exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Catlow, Agnes, 1807?-1889
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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DRANGEA CEjffi. Exogens, with flowers usually in flattened bunches (cymes),those in the centre having both stamens and pistils, those at themargin sterile, and having larger petals than the others. Calyxadhering more or less to the ovary, four or six-toothed. Petalsfour or six, inserted within the edge of the calyx, falling off.Stamens from eight to twelve, in two rows.—Shrubs, with per-fectly opposite simple leaves; natives of the temperate parts ofAsia and America; the leaves of a few used as tea. HYDRANGEA. Gen. Char. (Decandria Digynia.) Calyx superior, five-toothed;petals five; stamens ten; styles two; capsule two-celled, two-beaked, opening by a hole between the beaks. Named from the Greek for water and vessel, on accountof the genus delighting in water; the plants therefore ap-peal to the cultivator by their name for the fluid which isso necessary to their existence. The hardy species, H. hor-tensis, is often introduced into the greenhouse, and if wTell Hate HI. 0 IfWrtt lath
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Hy dr an gas Japonica: LYTHRACEyE. 181 supplied with water, becomes a large plant, particularly if itbe transferred every season into a larger pot or tub ; it maybe set out all the summer in a moist spot sheltered from thesun, and will flower profusely. A few plants are worthsheltering in the greenhouse in winter, for the sake of theirfine bushy heads, which may become exceedingly valuablein summer to fill up gaps, unavoidably formed by the deathof some more hardy plant. II. Japonica, a native of theisland of Nipon, and much cultivated by the Japanese, is avery handsome plant, and has two varieties, one with rose-coloured flowers, and the other with blue, the latter is thehandsomest: the compound umbel of flowers is flat, thefertile and small flowers being blue, the sterile at the edgeof the group, and having from three to five very large di-visions, which are white, tinged with blue at the base; theseform the flower and are very conspicuous; this variety makesa good show in the green

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