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Title: The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Charles H. Marot
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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country.One of the prettiest sights of this class we metwith a year or two ago, in a plant trained overthe entrance door of the State Lunatic Asylumat Nashville, Tenn. It must have covered aspace fifteen or twenty feet high all from asingle Summers growth, and made a beautifultemporary supply for the English Ivy whichhad been killed by the unusual severity of theWinter before. We have another species now-becoming known to our cultivators which was.introduced a few years ago by Messrs. Veitch & 1879. AND HORTICULTURIST. 233 Sons, of Chelsea, London, who give the follow- prominent, and of a reddish color; the upper surface of the leaf has a rich velvety appear-ance, colored with the brightest green, a deeper ing account of its birthplace and peculiarities A beautiful stove climber, collected for usin Costa Rica by the late M. Endres, with j shade adjoining the mid-rib and veins; the un-whose memory we have associated it. It is der surface a reddish brown, the red predomi- •-WT-^s
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CISSUS ENDRESII. more vigorm s than the well-known C. dis-color, and laiger in all its parts. Its fine largecordate-obovate and acuminate leaves are fromseven lo ei^ht inches long, with a breadth of six ; nating in the mid-rib and veins. The newestformed part of the stem and the youngest leavesand tendrils are stronirly tinged with crimson.The robust growth of tliis Cissus, combined with the mid-rib veins and connecting veinlets are its ample foliage, renders it particularly adapted 234 THE GARDENERS MONTHLY August, for covering large spaces or tall columns in awarm conservatory, and where a bold and mas-sive foliage is required. Xantiiisma texanum.— A very handsomeCentaury-like hardy annual, with golden flowers,discovered in Texas some fifty years ago, andsince found by many collectors, but never intro-duced into European gardens till within the lastfew years. It was published both in Europe andAmerica, and as a new genus, first as Xanthisma\>y the elder De Candolle in the Prodr

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