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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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has something to direct its scrutiny. Errors intaste, with reference to both colour and form, can now, moreover, be most readily rectified. Budding can still be performed, if it has heretofore been neglected. Cuttings of half-hardyplants may be struck in a trifling bottom.heat to any requisite extent. Verbenas, and plants ofan allied nature, should be layered in preference to being propagated by cuttings ; just placingthe lower part of a shoot beneath the soil, and putting a little earth on it. Those herbaceous orother species which are wanted to bloom in the following year ought not to be allowed to blossomagain now, which some of them will be inclined to do. Chrysanthemums must be timely sup-ported by stakes, leaving only three or four stems, and tying these separately to the stake.Dahlia flowers may be guarded from earwigs by hanging pieces of bean-stalk, or similarly lighttubular materials, on theii- branches. The insects will enter these, and can be shaken out andkilled each day.
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, Halden delilitU. Gi/()-AJi>-m-fjy^(j q^^z^ru/iy/f>ta SOPHRONITIS GRANDIFLORA. (Large-flowered Sophronitis.)Class. Order. GYNANDRIA. MONANDBIA. Natural Order. ORCHID AC EjE. Generic Character. —Pollen-masses eight, parallel i Specific Character.—Plant an epiphyte. Pseudo-before and behind ; caudicula double, covered with bulbs small, oblong, tapering towards the summit, one- powder ; gland none. Anthers terminal, furnishedwith a lid, eight-celled. Stigma concave, with an ob-tuse beak. Column free, winged on both sides at thesummit ; wings entire, oonuivent above the crest of the leaved. Leaves oblong, somewhat acute, thick. Flowersissuing from the top of the young pseudo-bulbs, appa-rently solitary. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute. Petalsvery broadly ovate, nearly obtuse. Li)> three-lobed : lip. ZaieZ^iHH entire, cucullate, tongue-shaped, connate side lobes folding over the column ; middle one oblong,with the base of the column. acute. Such is the comparative smallness of

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