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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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matters straight, before the general potting season commences. Prepare pots, soil,&c., that all may be ready at hand when wanted. STOVE. Steps should now be taken for potting orchideas plants, &c. ; as the operationswill soon commence, a sufficient quantity of good peat should be got in readinessfor such of the orchideous plants as require it, and a good quantity of proper mossfor others. Before any orchideous plant is potted, the soil in which it has beengrov,-ing should be dried well previously, as by so doing the roots are less liable to bebroken when moved. A quantity of loam of proper quality with other requisitesshould be prepared for other stove plants. Water the plants throughout this monthwith the utmost caution, and give a little fresh air when the weather will admit.Introduce bulbs, shrubs, &c., for forcing ; give them plenty of water, both at the rootsand top, fumigate them the very moment insects appear, and they will flower wellfor omamentino- the sreenhouse.
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(/le///e wi::icr/u^ ^^cc/^oi€Mc HEMEROCALLIS SIEBOLDII. (sikbolds DAV iwly.) class, order. HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER, LILIACE^. Generic Character Flowers campanulatc, with a cyliiidiical tube. Stamens decliuate. Stigma small, simple, villous.— Land. Encyc. of Plants. Specific Character.—Plants an herbaceous perennial. Roots fibrous. liadical-leaves spatulate, ovate,acute, nervose. Stem-leaves amplexicaul, oblong, acute. Flower-stalk from nine inches to a foothigh, roundish. Flowers of a delicate pink colour, merging to white towards the centre. Perianth of sixnearly equal segments ; segm,ents slightly reflexed, bluntish. Stamens six, filaments much curved atthe extremities. Style longer than the stamens, also curved at the point. Ovary oblong, slightlypendulous, three-celled. Few hardy plants have a more elegant and interesting appearance when inflower, or are more worthy of a place in the flower bed or border, than the one hererepresented ; and it is much to be regret

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