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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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occupy primary attention. If thesethings be effected in November, or the commencement of winter, the plants are commonly damagedor lifted out of the ground by frost It should be observed, that the younger and outerportion of clumps of herbaceons plants is the most healthy, and should be selected in preferenceto the centre, which has been more or less exhausted by previous flowering, and by continuancein the same soil. This is emphatically the seed-sowing month ; since not only annuals, but the seeds of perennialplants, shrubs, and trees, are now to be committed to the earth. As a general rule, they shouldbe covered lightly with a friable soil, and watered sparingly when the weather is dry. Annualsought by no means to be all sown at once, as is the usual practice, but, commencing directly,sowings should be made every fortnight for three months. The result will be a constant displaytill the end of autumn, and not a period of extraordinary brilliancy succeeded by one of equaldesolation.
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S-Holden.diillLifli (7^cH^Ce£c€ty tM lam/eAccij/.itMUl/- HOULLETIA BROCKLEHURSTIANA. (Mr Brocklehursts Houlletia.) ^ Class. Order. GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. Natural Order, ORCHIDACE^. Generic Character Perianth spreading; sepals , two-celled, depressed. PoUen-masses two, opening partially free; petals a little smaller, iingniculate. \ behind ; caudicula linear-lanceolate.Labelluni continuous with the base of the column, j Specific Character.^Pta«f epiphytal. Pseudo-bulbsspreading ; hypochilium (or lower part) narrow, exca- conical, furrowed. Leaves on long peduncles, broadly-vated at the base, and partially two-lipped, its summit lanceolate. Racemes erect, six or seven flowered. prolonged, on both sides, into a lobe, lobes short; meta-chilium none ; epichilium dilated, joined to the hjpo-ehilium. Column erect, arched, club-shaped, semi-cy- Sepals oblong, somewhat concave, and, with the petals,rounded at the apex. Labellum having the lobes of thehypochilium linear-lanceolate, reflexed;

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