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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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aken from them about the month of June of thesame year. Although it did not seed freely, owing to some casualties attendingits cultivation, a few seeds were preserved, and it can now be procured at theClapton nursery, where it has bloomed abundantly during the present season. Seeds may be sown at diflferent periods, according as the plants are wished toflower. The best time is probably the month of March. They can be scatteredsparingly over a light soil, on a gentle hotbed, and very slightly covered ; or theymay be sown in pots. They should be potted singly, or with two or three in apot, while in an early stage of their growth, and extreme care is necessary topreserve them from too great dampness. In repotting, it is advisable to disturbthe roots as little as possible, for these are delicate, and the health of the specimenis entirely dependent on them. Hchizanthus is derived from sc/iizo, to cut, and ant/ios, a flower, referring to thenumerous indentations in the margins of the petab.
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i 173 CHOROZEMA DICKSONII. (mr. DICK30N*S CHOROZEM&.)CLASS, ORDER. DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDERj LEGUMINOSiE. Generic Character.—Calyx half five-cleft, bilabiate; upper lip bifid, lower one three-parted. Keelof the flower vcntricose, shorter than the wings. Style short, hooked, crowned by an obliquelyobtuse stigma. Legume vcntricose, one-celled, many-seeded, sessile or subscssile.—Dons Gard,and Botany. Specific Charactfr.—Plant an erect, evergreen shrub, brannhing freely, growing from two to three feetin height. Leaves usually alternate, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, mucronulate. Floivers axillary,solitary or in pairs, having long peduncles. Standard lnYgej bright red, with a yellow blotch at thebase. Wings and keel purplish crimson. No genus of Australian plants contains fewer uninteresting species, or com-prises more generally those which are positively ornamental, than Chorozcnia.Each plant composing it is more or less beautiful on account of the showy coloursof its f

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