Identifier: paxtonsmagazineo05paxt (find matches)
Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ifnot previously done. Self-sown annuals, that have stood the winter, should bethinned, and some transplanted to other parts of the garden. Stocks of all kinds,and Mignonette to blow early, should be sown in pots or boxes. Hardy annualsmay be sowti towards the latter end of the month; and biennials, such as Rocket,Alyssum, Hollyhocks, &c. &c., about the same time. Perennials should also besown. Tender annuals should be sown on a mild hotbed, to be in readiness fortransplanting when the season permits. Provide, by immediately propagating ina httle heat, a good stock of Terbenas, Petunias, Salvias, Fuchsias, Heliotropiums,Scarlet Geraniums, Gesneria Sellowii, &c., for turning out in the flower-gardenabout May, when all danger from frost is over. Florists flowers should bewatched, and protected on very severe nights. Dahlia cuttings should be broughtforward, and all old roots, which are desired to be propagated, should be broughtfrom their winter quarters, and placed in heat.
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miL i.ieae TUi^iy/^ei^et^^iJ^i^V 49 TROP^OLUM TUBEROSUM. (tUBEROOS-KOOTED TR0P;B0LUM.)CLASS. OllDEll. OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER. TROPJEOLEJE. Gkneric Character.—See vol. ii. page 193. Specific Character Root tuberous, perennial. Stem climbing, strong, of a pale green colour. Leaves alternate, of five unequal lobes. Lobes obovate, obtuse, slightly glaucous beneath. Leaf-stalkfrom four to five inches long, curved at the base. Flower-stalk from sik to nine inches long, pro-duced at the axil of each leaf, of a beautiful greenish purple colour, and transparent. Calyx of anorange colour, five-cleft, spuiTed ; segments blunt. Petals five, deep orange, inserted in and ratherlonger than the caljx, striped with brown at the base. Filaments purple. Germen three-lobed. Of the many elegant and interesting species of this genus abeady known inour collections, some of which, especially T. tricolorum, have become suchuniversal favourites, the one now for the first time figured, far surpas

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