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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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es long, VOL. II. I 114 POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. and the shrub is of a moderate size. The soil should bepeat, kept rather damp. ANDROMEDA. Gen. Char. (JDecandria Monogynia.) Calyx five-parted; corollaovate, with a five-cleft orifice; stamens separate; ovary superior;capsule five-celled. The genus is named after Andromeda, who, like theseplants, was said to be confined to a marsh. Many speciesare hardy; ovalifolia, Sinensis, and buxifolia look well in,and require the greenhouse, as they come from India andChina; the flowers are blue. A. cassiniifolia, now calledZenobia cassiniifolia or speciosa, is a very pretty speciesfrom Carolina, and, though hardy, is a lovely plant for thegreenhouse; it has long thin branches, beneath which hangthe flowers, like little white bells; it continues in blossomsome weeks and is rather striking. They all require heath-mould, plenty of water, and should not be exposed to thesun. CLETHRA. Gen. Char. (Decandria Monogy?iia.) Calyx five-parted; petals Hate YII.
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O.JewiU. lixk YLncent Blocks Imp. G-axilth eria Lractcata. ERICA CEiE. 115 five ; stamens separate; stigma three-cleft; capsule three-celled,three-valved. A Greek name for a genus of pretty plants principallynatives of North America,, and hardy; C, arborea, a nativeof Madeira, should be in every greenhouse; it has hand-some oblong leaves, bright and smooth, and pendent ra-cemes of white flowers, like the Lily of the Valley, GAULTHEKIA. Gen. Char. (Decandria Monogynia.) Outer calyx two-leaved,inner five-cleft, ovate; nectary with ten points; capsule five-celled, clothed with the inner calyx. Named after Gaulthier, a French physician, of Quebec.Several species from America are hardy; fragrans, fromNepaul, with red, and leucocarpa, from Java, with whiteflowers, should be kept in the greenhouse; bracteata isfrom New Granada, and is a very pretty mountain plantfor the greenhouse, but it will bear putting out in summer,though it should be in a shady place, as it is said not to likethe hot s

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