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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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It is cultivated, like E. oncidioides and its allies, in pots filled with heath-mould and potsherds, the lower half of the pot being appropriated to roughdrainage materials, and the soil being somewhat raised in the centre, immediatelybeneath where the plant is placed. A moderately high temperature, with abund-ance of atmospheric moisture in summer, and both these conditions a little modifiedduring winter, seems to suit it admirably. Propagation is effected by removingone or more of the outer pseudo-bulbs when the plant is in a torpid state. Epidefidrum is derived from epi, upon, and dendron, a tree, in reference to theepiphytal character of the species. Some species of Epidendrum were among thefirst air-plants made known to botanists; and hence the application of a namewhich is now understood to indicate the habits of a very large class of the vegetablekingdom.
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S^Diaeii, il Scli&L e.J^!^u^>AjciX c^iau^^r^,.€t. FUCHSIA CORDIFOLIA. (Heart-shaped leaved Fuchsl .)Class. Order. OCTANDRIA. MONCGYMA. Natural Order,ONAGRACE^. Generic Character.—See p.27 of the present Volume. ; shaped, acuminate, toothed, very slightly downy above, Specific Character.— Plant an evergreen shrub, almost smooth beneath. Ped/ceZs axillary, one-flowered, growing four or more feet high. Leaves opposite, or in shorter than the leaves. Calyx pubescent, with a very whorls of three, with long petioles, broadly heart- i long tube. Peta^« ovate, particularly short, acuminate. Among the many fine plants discovered and sent home by Mr. Hartweg, thecollector employed by the Horticultural Society, this new Fuchsia will rank withthe most hardy and easily cultivated, and therefore the most valuable. When firstflowered, owing to its having been kept in too warm a house, and otherwise treatedwith too much care, its blossoms were comparatively small, and of a pale-orangeco

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