Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo08paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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, and sothoroughly drained, that it may never be unnecessarily drenched with water. Arich loamy soil, to which a little heath-mould can bo added, is a proper mediumfor the roots; the species requiring a rather more nutritive earth than many plantsof its class, from the unusual vigour of its growth. A tolerably high temperatureand a moist atmosphere are essential to its full development in summer; and aplace in an Orchidaceous-house, where these conditions are secured, and where theAllamanda wU assist in forming a natural screen to the roof, is most desirable.So treated, it will flower during the whole of the late summer and autumnalmonths. It is easily increased by cuttings of the younger shoots, which can be preparedat the most convenient period, and planted in the ordinary way, beneath a shadedglass, in a warm propagation-house or frame. The genus commemorates Frederick Allamand, a surgeon of Holme, whotravelled in Guiana about 1769, and probably discovered the plant that bears hb I
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