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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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mass, when formed into a bed, moreequal and vigorous, and will further provide strong and healthy plants to propagate from in theautumn, or to take up for keeping through the winter. Stakes for upi-ight-growing species thatneed support, and trellises, or whatever else it is determined to apply to them, for climbers, shouldbe furnished as soon as they are established; and weak specimens of every kind should betimely staked. Half-hardy and hardy annuals may still be transplanted or thinned, and it is not yet too lateto make additional sowings for the flower-borders. For the greenhouse, the like provision shouldbe made, selecting, of course, the rarest and most beautiful of the tender kinds. Propagation ought to be carried on extensively this month. Pelargoniums, or other plants inflower, must be slightly shaded in the middle of the day, and Orchidaceae must be kept dulyshaded. Insects should be properly kept under by water, by fumigation, or by the frequentapplication of a small brush.
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SSil^m ad-felttb- (TOoyCt^Xyn.^.^^ ,/c^c/3(,/^^ytJ. HABRANTHUS PRATENSIS. Class. HEXANDRIA. (Meadow Habrafltlius.) Natural Order. AMARYLLIDACEjE. Order. MONOGYNIA. Generic Character. — Germen constricted in themiddle; tube equal. Filaments deolinate, fasciculate,recurved. Style deolinate, recurved. Seed cumulate,flattened, black. Specific Character.—Plant a bulbous perennial.Leaves linear, green ; convex on the back. Umbels two to three flowered. Per/anift oampanulate, revolute atthe summit, suboblique, with scarcely any tube. Fila-ments glandular at the base. Faiieial appendageslinear-lanceolate, acuminate. Stigma nearly simple.Synonymb. Amaryllis pratensis. We owe our acquaintance witli this beautiful plant, and the opportunity ofhaving it figured, to Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., at Cheam,where it bloomed very finely in the months of March and April last. It alsoflowered in April, at the nursery of-Mr, Low, Clapton. For the freeness with which it develops its b

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