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Title: The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Andrews, Henry Charles, fl. 1799-1828 Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835, printer Haworth, Adrian Hardy, 1768-1833 Kennedy, John, 1759-1842 Jackson, George, d. 1811 Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plants, Cultivated Botany Flowers
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... : To be had of J. White, Fleet-street, and all the booksellers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ed, the fhape of the threads, on which the ellential gene-rical diltinftion refts, approaches very near to thole in Mahernia; for, although they have not abfo-lutely foot lialks, they are much larger, above the middle, than is ulual in Hermannia, as may befeen on the plate; where thefe parts are fliewn, magnified. It has likewife that fi.ngularly curiouscharacter, feen in Mahernia, of the two blolfoms which terminate the flower-fiems, each taking acontrary direction, in its fpiral twift, to the other. As a greenhoufe plant, it is rather tender in regardto damp, though not to cold; therefore, fliould be kept in the molt airy part of the houfe. It is anative of the Cape, from whence it was introduced in the year 1796, to the Royal Gardens, Kew.By cuttings made in the month of April, it may be preferved, and increased, as it is not a long-livedplant. Loam, with a fmall portion of old rotten dung, it thrives in moft. Our drawing was taken,at the Nurfery, Hammerfmith, in June 1800. ///,. )
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