File:The Florist and horticultural journal (1853) (14594835728).jpg

Identifier: floristhorticult21853phil (find matches)
Title: The Florist and horticultural journal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors:
Subjects: Horticulture Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
g of that little plant is thus an-nounced. This is a plant which a rare good fortune has enabled Sir Wm.Hooker to publish the excellent figure here reproduced. Specimens gatheredin the pine barrens of New Jersey by M. Evant of Radnor, (Delaware),arrived last May in Kew gardens, as fresh, and as well flowered as ifthey had just been gathered. Still another feat of that great magiciansteam, still another service of that ingenious system of portable glasseswhich is called the Wardian system ! Gur friend of Delaware County hasthus performed a service to the botanists of the other side, which hedid not anticipate when he boxed up the little Diapensia in a Wardiancase. The contributors to this work are among the most Celebratedbotanists; besides the Editor Dr. Planchon, we have the names of Blume,Brogniart, De Caisne, De Candolle and others. Mr. G. G. Sheppard ofNew York is Agent for the work in the United States. Eratum.—The eight pages of signature 30 in this number are wronglynumbered.
Text Appearing After Image:
V / 258 THE FLORIST AND escapes destruction and taking root on the very ruins, seem tosoften the misfortune, by opposing to the brute force of nature thereproductive power and the fecundity of life, It is in such situa-tions that Dr. Hooker has been able to gather without much troublespecimens of the plant, naturally little accessible in its most usualstation, on the branches of large trees. The fact that it growsequally well on rocks will interest horticulturists, by proving be-forehand the possibility of its culture in circumstances little differ-ent from those in which the terresterial species are placed. Onlyit must be supposed that this species, like R. Dalhousi®, will requiremore heat and atmospheric moisture than do the species of theorangery such as arbor eum, campanulatum and others. J. E. Pranchon,In the li Flore des Serves HISTORY AND CULTIVATION. When LinfKBus first borrowed the Ilose to describe the beautiesof this family, he little dreamt of the honor future discoveries

Note About Images