Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described; with Their Propagation, Culture, Management, and Uses in the Arts, in Useful and Ornamental Plantations, and in Landscape-gardening; Preceded by a Historical and Geographical Outline of the Trees and Shrubs of Temperate Climates Throughout the World, Volume 3The Author, 1844 - Botany |
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Page 1272
... nearly sessile , acute at both ends . Flowers solitary , extra - axillary , pedicellate . Corolla funnel - shaped . Sta- mens exserted . Calyx unequally 5 - toothed . Corolla purple , with a white bottom . Berry oblong , red . ( Don's ...
... nearly sessile , acute at both ends . Flowers solitary , extra - axillary , pedicellate . Corolla funnel - shaped . Sta- mens exserted . Calyx unequally 5 - toothed . Corolla purple , with a white bottom . Berry oblong , red . ( Don's ...
Page 1287
... nearly all the year . A plant against our conservative wall at Bayswater lived four years , producing shoots of 5 ft . or 6 ft . in length in one season , which were most beautifully covered with flowers . The plant grows so rapidly ...
... nearly all the year . A plant against our conservative wall at Bayswater lived four years , producing shoots of 5 ft . or 6 ft . in length in one season , which were most beautifully covered with flowers . The plant grows so rapidly ...
Page 1295
... nearly glaucous colour ; a few of which survive the winter , and harden into branches ; the rest perish and leave a knotty scar . Stipule membranous , obscurely trifid , shriveling , surrounding the joint , as in the polygonums . Leaves ...
... nearly glaucous colour ; a few of which survive the winter , and harden into branches ; the rest perish and leave a knotty scar . Stipule membranous , obscurely trifid , shriveling , surrounding the joint , as in the polygonums . Leaves ...
Page 1312
... nearly level heads , covered with flowers . The branches always take an upright direction , and are tipped with groups of pale pink blossoms , which are extremely fragrant , and expand very early in the spring . Price of plants , in the ...
... nearly level heads , covered with flowers . The branches always take an upright direction , and are tipped with groups of pale pink blossoms , which are extremely fragrant , and expand very early in the spring . Price of plants , in the ...
Page 1314
... nearly hardy , having borne a considerable degree of frost without protection . ( See Gard . Mag . , xii . p . 75. ) 1912 D. hybrida Swt . Brit . Fl . Gard . , 1st ser . t . 200. , Bot Reg . t . 1177. , and our fig . 1193 .; the D ...
... nearly hardy , having borne a considerable degree of frost without protection . ( See Gard . Mag . , xii . p . 75. ) 1912 D. hybrida Swt . Brit . Fl . Gard . , 1st ser . t . 200. , Bot Reg . t . 1177. , and our fig . 1193 .; the D ...
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