Paxtons Flower Garden By J Lindley And J Paxton PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... de Brabant. Petals pink with a lilac tint. Disk white. Roi da Beiges. Petals dark crimson with a purple tinge. Disk carmine. Alexandre Verschafelt. Petals purple red, variegated, dotted with white and lilac. Disk purple. Prinee Albert. Petals dark brown red, the outer ones sometimes variegated with white and green. Disk purple. The Wild Tree Paony. On this are worked the varieties obtained by cultivation. It deserves'attention as well for the colour and sweet scent of its flowers as in a horticultural point of view, for its easy propagation by the division of its root and its hardiness, it having borne several winters in the open air without any shelter. Its colour is bright scarlet; each petal has a black spot at its base, and the stamens are surmounted with golden yellow anthers. THE SESSILE ONCID. (ONCIDIL'M SESSILE. A stove Epiphyte, from Pebc, belonging to the Natural Order of Orchids. Sprcific Character. THE SESSILE ONCID.--Peeudo-bulbs 2-leaved, oblong, ONCIDIUM SESSILE.--(Pentapetala macropetala); compressed, ribbed. Leaves strap-shaped, papery, blunt, pseudobulbis diphyllis oblongis compressis costatis, foliis shorter than the scape, which bears a panicled raceme. Sepals distinct and petals equal in size and form, all sessile. Lipeared, dilated at the end and retuse; its re-entering angles slightly lobed; the crest hollowed out, smooth, 3-lobed, with two small edges in front. Wings of the calyx short and truncated. loratis pergameneis obtusiusculis scapo racemoso-paniculato brevioribus, sepalis distinctis petalisque oblongis obtusis planis ivqualibus conformibus omninb sessilibus, labello auriculato apice dilatato retuso sinu sublobato, crista excavata laavi 3-Ioba antice bilamellata, columnse alis brevibus truncatis. A Native of...