Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo09paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1842 (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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rich. The species is readily cultivated ; requiring a rather nutritive loamy soil, anda moderately large pot. As it seems to flourish best in a warm moist stove, it isa favourable object for training over the roof of an Orchidaceous-house, where itsleaves will afford some shade to the plants growing below them ; and for such apurpose it is rendered especially suitable by the annual decay of its stems. Duringwinter, it ought, however, to be kept in a drier place; for all tuberous-rootedplants bloom in a superior manner if they are kept thoroughly torpid for two orthree of the coldest months of the year. It is not, probably, well adapted fortraining over a low circular trellis, though this method might be tried with propriety. Its multiplication is effected by cuttings, which should be taken off early inthe season, that they may form sufficiently large tubers to prevent them from dyingin the following winter. Extreme caution is necessary in regard to supplying thecuttings with moisture.
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SBnldBD..■M, Sclith. ■i6^??.-&t^^ /^^^^^A-o/^-a.. GESNERA LATERITIA. DIDYNAMIA. (Brick-red flowered Gesnera.) Natural Ordc . GESNERACE^. Order. ANGIOSPERMIA. Gbneric Character Calyx adnate to the ovary; limb nearly equally five-lobed, free. Corolla semi-supe-rior, tubular, with five gibbosities at the base; limbsub-bilabiate ; upper lip drawn out, emarginately two-lobed; lower lip three-lobed. Stamens didynamous,with the rudiment of a fifth behind; anthers at firstcohering into a round head. Glands five,, or fewer,around the ovary. Capsule dry in the calyx, one-cell- ed, incompletely two-valved; placentas two, parietal,many-seeded. Seeds scrobiform. —Dons Gard. andBotany. Specific Character.—PZare< an herbaceous perennial.Leaves roundly ovate, cordate, rugose, crenate, hairy.Flowers axillary, solitary, terminal, in pairs. Bractssessile, stem-clasping, plain. Corolla downy ; upperlip oblong, concave, two-lobed; lower one truncate. Of the very ornamental genus Gesnera., t

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