Identifier: floralcabinetmaIIIKnow (find matches)
Title: The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Knowles, G. B. (George Beauchamp), 1829-1852 Westcott, Frederic, -1861 Baxter, W. Henry, former owner. DSI Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI Bradbury & Evans, printer Day & Haghe, printer of plates
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Gardening
Publisher: London : William Smith
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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an be given, or in frostynights, otherwise it will occasion more harm than good. Fires may be lighted in vineries to protect late crops of grapes from the damp. Mushroom beds may now be made with success.. Sea-kale should now be covered with leaves, &c. Radishes should now be sown in frames for spring use. Hyacinths should now be potted for forcing, and Tulips and Crocuses shouldbe planted in the open ground. Form beds of Pansies for flowering next season. Protect half-hardy Alpines in frames, and those which are tender and out ofdoors may be protected by placing around them twigs of broom, Hazel or Birch,at a little distance, so as to allow of a free circulating air; such protection isoftentimes more effectual than close covering, particularly to those plants whichare soft-wooded, and are liable to damp off. The soil also around the protectedplants should be kept loosened; as plants never suffer so much from frost wherethe soil is kept loosened, as they do in firm unstirred soil.
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145 ASTRAGALUS VIRGATUS. (Twiggy Astragalus.)LINNEAN SYSTEM. „T „„rt NATURAL ORDER. JNo. 12o. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. LEGUMINOS^: § LOTE^J. GENERIC CHARACTER. Astragalus (Lin.) Calyx 5-dentatus. Corolla carina, obtusa. Stamina diadelpha.Legumen biloculare aut semibiloculare sutura inferiore introflexa. Herbae aut sufFrutices.—(De Cand. Prod. vol. ii. p. 281.) Calyx divided into 5 parts. Corolla with an obtuse keel. Stamens in two sets. Legumeeither two-celled or half two-celled, having the inferior suture bent inwards. Herbaceous orsuffructicose plants. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. A. virgatus; erectus sufFruticosus subcanescens; foliolis subsexjugis lineari-lanceolatisacutis; racemis spicatis valde elongatis; floribus inferioribus renaotis; leguminibus oblongistriquetris calyce dupld longioribus.—(De Cand. ut sup. p. 285.) Stem ei-ect, suffruticose, rather hoary; leaflets arranged in about six pairs, linear, lanceolate,acute ; flowers arranged in a long spiked raceme, the lower flowe

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