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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (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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l, when the ordinary members of the genus are but justbeginning to grow. Planted in the open ground, however, about the present time,it acquires by the autumn a luxuriance, and yet a dwarfness and bushiness, whichare not seen in the greenhouse, while the profusion and splendour of its blossomsare greatly increased. We should strongly advise that a few plants of it be treatedthus, as well for ornamenting the open borders, as for preparing handsome specimensto be removed to the greenhouse in October. Increase is readily obtained by cuttings, and perhaps by seeds. It may probablyprove of some service to the hybridist, in improving the colour of the crimson-flowered kinds. In the Botanical Register, it is stated, that the berry, in the wildstate, is from one to one and a half inches long, and pleasant to the taste. TheGuatemalese call it Melocotoncito, and apparently eat it. Messrs. Young, of the Epsom Nursery, supplied the plant from which ourdrawing was taken in the autumn of last year.
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S^Edden, dd fcldi ^^iZ^^/c€c A^^ieAAf/-//^ //fY/yr /. LOBELIA HETEROPHYLLA; mr. MAJOR. Class,PENTANDRIA. (Various-leaved Lobelia, large-flowered variety.) Natural Order. LOBELIACE^. Order. MONOGYNIA. Generic Character.—Calyx five-toothed. Corollatubular, irregular, cleft from the top of the tube intolong divisions. Stamens having the anthers united andbearded. Style simple. Capsule two-celled. Specific Character.—Plant annual, smooth. Stemsangular, nearly simple, irregularly intertwining. Leaves thick; inferior ones pinnatifid, toothed; upper oneslinear, entire. Corolla with the lower lip jagged in themiddle, oboordate ; lateral lobes unequal, bright blue.Var. Major.—Plant stronger. Leavis and flowersmuch larger. Perhaps no tender annual is more worthy of being generally cultivated, bothfor the greenhouse and the flower-borders, than Lobelia heterophylla. The gracefulslenderness and waviness of its branches tend much to add to the charms of itspeculiarly brilliant flowers, and

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