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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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ose an additional tax on itsenergies while it has so many to contend with. We mean that it should be allowed timeto recover from the wounds its roots necessarily receive before its branches are woundedlikewise. Beds that have been filled with summer flowers being now vacant, may be turned up, or havetheir soil renewed ; and some of them can be planted with bulbs for spring flowering. Hyacinths,if grown in beds, would make an admirable display in spring, and are by no means duly valuedas an out-door ornament. A considerable proportion of sand and cow-dung should be put in thesoil prepared for their reception. Ornamental climbers can now be pruned and dressed. Some kinds, such as Tecomas, willbloom much more finely without any pruning ; unless it be their really superfluous shoots. Thespecies of Clematis and the jasmine, may, on the other hand, be rather closely pruned with ad-vantage. Both for appearance and convenience, trellises are preferable to plain walls for sup-porting climbers.
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Hen. del..S;litti.. ,yit(J^:firvciry Su>-u^eJ-iiy. MILTONIA CLOWESII. (Mr. Clowess Miltonia.)C- Order. GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. Natural Order. ORCHIDACE^. Generic Character.—Permnift showy. Petals andsepals revolute, lateral ones connate at the base, sessile,similar. Lahellum largest, dilated, undivided, sessile,connate with the column, lanceolate at the base.Column short, semi-cylindrical, eared at the summit.Pollen-masses two, with an oblong, adnate caudicula. Specific Character.—Plant e^vcJhytaX. Pseudo-bulbsoval, two-leaved. Leaves ensiform, narrow, erect,longer than the scape. iJaceme few-flowered, lax. Bradssmall, setaceous. Sepals and petals lanceolate, equal.Labellum cordate, constricted in the middle, acute,with five unequal, abrupt lamellse at the base. This very beautiful species of Miltonia was, we believe, introduced byJ. Clowes, Esq., of Brougbton Hall, near Manchester, and after that gentleman,who is a very zealous collector and cultivator of the tribe, it has appro

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