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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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nto a pot only one size larger. Particular attentionmust be paid to potting; for it is generally owing to a sourness or insufficiency ofsoil, or imperfect drainage, that plants of this character acquire a sickly aspect. 1-24 BORONIA ANEMON^FOLIA. Watering is, besides, a very important point; and hard water always injuresspecies with fine roots sooner than others, so that it should be avoided, as a sourceof mischief, with such plants as Boronias. Whenever the plant evinces a disposi-tion to depart from its ordinary compactness, an occasionally stopping of the shootswill be useful: indeed, while young, the practice may be adopted with proprietyunder any circumstances. The young shoots thus removed can be employed ascuttings for propagation, which is easily effected in this manner. Dr. Sibthorpe, a collector of plants, who had an Italian servant to accompanyhim in his tours, lost him by an accident at Athens, and commemorated his servicesin the present genus. His name was Francis Borone.
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SJiickrL U. ilitiL. Ccyn^/uclt^Ky Tre^/^yi^c ay/ZMA CINERARIA WEBBERIANA. (Mr. Webbers Cineraria.)Class Order. SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLTIA. Natural Order. COMPOSITE. Generic Chav.acter.—Involucre deeply many-parted,without external bractese; lobes equal. Receptaclenaked. Florets of the disk tubular, hermaphrodite;those of the rays ligulate, female. Anthers naked at ! the base. Pappus pilose, sessile. Specific Character. Ptore< a seedling or hybrid, ofvigorous habits, and with large, deep as well as brightl)lue flowers. Hybrid Cinerarias are now becoming so numerous, that it is with difficultymany of them can be distinguished from each other; and the yearly addition ofsuch numbers of new ones tends greatly to add to the confusion of those who desireto gain a knowledge of their peculiarities. We would by no means, however,deprecate the still further extension of the practice of hybridizing; since it hasbeen the means of creating quite a novel and superior race in these, as well asother

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