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Title: The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gardeners' chronicle (London, England : 1874)
Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, ornamental
Publisher: London: (Gardeners' Chronicle)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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Fio 94.—ltcobis aurea: flowers orange. the first male inflorescence the plant has borne, theprevious ones hitherto being female,less crowded,withbranched tails and inconspicuous bracts. W. W., Km. LYCOEIS AUEEA. Several plants of this excellent autumn-floweringapeciei (fig. 94) were shown by Messrs. Wallace the colour ft rich orange; the anthers are yellow-coloured. The flowers appear usually in August andSeptember, and before the leaves; the plant isamenable to greenhouse culture. The bulb is sub-globose, 2 inches in diameter. It is figured in theBotanical Magazine, t. 409, as Amaryllis aurea,and it was introduced from China in 1777 byDr. Fothergill. season, decorating the otherwise bare rockery. Ithas strap-shaped, bright green leaves, which form arosette. The flowers are of a violet colour, and wellelevated on a stout stalk, which is covered with amealiness even to the calyces, resembling P. farinosain this respect, as in others. I saw a bed of itthe other day, and every plant wa

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