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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1841 (1840s)
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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plants is answered. All the plants in pits or frames whoso transference to the flower-borders iscontemplated next month, may be now gradually acquiring hardihood liy being leftuncovered with the lights in the day, and also throughout the night, when theweather permits. Some of them will show an early disposition to develop flowers;but the buds arc to be timely extracted. In proportion to the extent to which thisremoval of flower-buds is carried, the suminers display will be either scanty orbrilliant. Annuals may be sown for succession ; Chrysanthemums, Rockets, and all kindsof plants may be propagated from cuttings; climbers must be trained as they grow;tender annuals should, if worth it, be potted into small pots, that they maybe transplanted with greater facility; Dahlias and the sorts allied to tliem iu habitarc to be hardened ready for planting ; but we would not have the summer orna-ments of the flower-beds placed in their final position till the beginning of thesucceeding month.
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■ //ft/itrr<) ^^.f/^f/fM^fttf 73 IPOMGEA TYRIANTHINA. (deep PURPLE-FLOUEllED IPOMffiA.) CLAB?. PENTANDRU. OKDEU. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. CONVOLVULACE^. Generic Character.—Calyx of five sepals. Corolla ranipanulate. Stamens inclosed. Style one. Stigma tivo-)obcd ; lobes capitate. Ovary two-celled; cells two-seeded. Capsule two-celled; cells two-seeded.Specific Char.icter.—Plant sufFruticose. Root tuberous. Stem twining, mostly berbaceous, but inclining to be sbrubby at the base, having small wart-like tubercles on its surface. Leaves entire, nearly round, cordate, acumintite, slightly villous, especially on the veins, and round the margins. Peduncles many-flowered, longer than tlie Icaf-stallvS. Corolla funnel-shaped, deep purple. So superior is this splendid plant to most of its allies, that Dr. Lindley, whohad ample means for observing it, says, in the miscellaneous matter of the BotanicalRegister for 1838, that neither I. rulro-carulea nor I. Horsfalliw, nor any otherof t

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