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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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f various kinds. One of the best, if not thebest, for the purpose is Lastrea Filix-mas, whichunder good cultivation developes into a dwarf treeFern. Some of the plants we saw were of quiteextraordinary dimensions. JutY 3°. SSi.l THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 145 Podophyllum Emodi. — At the present time the scarlet fruits of this Himalayan herbaceousplant are very ornamental ; they are saiJ to be muchbetter than the sweet, slightly aci.l ones of the onlyother species of the gemis, the United States May AnENOt-Ai.vMNA NiTinUM.—This is a Bra-zilian climber, belonging to the natural order liinno-niacea:. It has large Allamanda-Iike golden-yelluwblossoms, which are freely produced by the plant onthe roof of the Vigtotia-hoMse at Kcw. A, comosum, water on some of the powder (consisting of grounclleaves and twigs of certain species), then to suck theinfusion through tubes provided with strainers. MM.dArsonval and Contv (says the Times) haverecently inquired into the action of this substance,
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Apple, P. peltatum. Though the fruits are edible,the leaves and roots of both are probably poisonous ;indeed, leaves and roots, drastic and poisonous, isdistinctly stated of P. peltatum by Dr. AsA Gray.The resin—podophyllin—which has obtained a footingin this country, and is used in medicine as a substitutefor mercurials, is derived from the last-named plant. Fig. 32.—phaL/Enopsis violacea. (see p. 144.; a species with rather smaller flowers, is in bloom inthe Palm-house. The Physiological Effects of Mat£. — Mate, or Paraguayan Tea, is known to be exten-sively used in South America, and almost universallyin Brazil, the common practice being to pour boiling administering it to dogs, either by injecting into theveins or by introduction into the stomach, and theyhave observed a remarkable effect of it on the gasesof the blood. It diminishes the carbonic acid andoxygen both of the arterial and of the venous bloodto a large extent, sometimes a third or even half ofthe normal quant

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