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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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long with persistent sepals, hang-ing singly or several together along the grace-fully arched branches. with other species. The plant may also <be pro-pagated from layers or cuttings. A. 0. FURGR/EA BEDINGHAUSII. Furcr.ea Bedinghausii was discovered in1857 by the distinguished traveller and collector,Roezl, who found it growing on Mount Acuscain Mexico at an altitude of over 12,000 feet.The plant was shortly afterwards introducedinto European gardens, and flowered for thefirst time in cultivation in the garden of M. September 6, 1913.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 167 BediwasItCont1875 nghaus, of Mons, in 1863, after whom itnamed by K. Koch. is recorded as having flowered in several inental gardens shortly afterwards, and in flowered in the famous garden of Mr. has thrived beyond expectation, and has re-cently flowered, sending up an inflorescence over12 feet from the tops of the leaves, the totalheight of the plant being more than 16 feet,whilst the spread of the leaves exceeds 3 feet
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Photograph by W. J. Bennetts ^ Sons.Fig. 64.—furcrjea bedinghausii flowering in mr. w. c. pendarves garden, pendarves, CAMBORNE. Dorrien-Smith at Tresco Abbey, Scilly. Inthese gardens, which are practically free fromfrost, although they are situated only 43 milesoff the coast of Cornwall, the species thrivesfreely, and specimens there have flowered fre-quently. The plant illustrated in Fig. 64 wasobtained from the Tresco garden some ten yearsago, and planted in a sheltered position out-of-doors in the garden at Pendarves, Cornwall. It in diameter. The large, branching panicle bearsmany hundreds of pendulous flowers. These are1^ to 2 inches in diameter, pale primrose on firstopening, fading with age to pale greenish yellow.The perianth segments are spreading, ; inchlong, elliptic-oblong, and hairy on the outside.The ovary is elliptic in shape and covered withshort white hairs J inch long. The species seldom bears fruit, even in its native habitat, but in place of fruit manyhundreds o

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