Identifier: populargreenhous00catl (find matches)
Title: Popular greenhouse botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of the exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Catlow, Agnes, 1807?-1889
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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eenhouse. C. larbellatais a native of the Himalaya mountains, and a very prettyspecies, having large, purplish, drooping flowers, the edgesof the sepals bordered with cream-colour; it is a climbingspecies, and nearly hardy: these are all climbing plants, butsmilacifolia, from Nepaul, and gentianoides, from Yan Die-mens Land, having white flowers, are not climbing. Theseplants are very useful in the greenhouse, as they are ofrapid growth, and soon fill up vacancies; they prefer aloamy bat light soil. KNOWLTONIA. Gen. Char. (Polyandria Monogynia.) Divisions of calyx five;petals five to fifteen, with a naked claw; oyaries upon a globosereceptacle; grains one-seeded, in the form of a berry; the stylefalling off. Named after a Mr. Knowlton. Cape plants, requiringthe shelter of the greenhouse. The species are vesicatoria,having a simple umbel of a few green flowers; rigida, theumbel of which is spreading and the colour green, the leavesthick; and gracilis^ daucifolia, and hirsuta, also with
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FUM ART ACE M. 101 green flowers. They require loam and peat soil, and growfreely; they can be increased by dividing the root. FUM ARIA CUM. Exogens, with irregular, unsyrametrical flowers. Divisions ofcalyx two, falling off. Petals four, very irregular. Stamensfour, distinct, below the ovary, or six, in two parcels, oppositethe outer petals, very seldom all separate. Leaves much cut,often with tendrils.—Natives of temperate and northern latitudesprincipally. DTELYTEA. Gen. Char. (Diadelpliia Hexandria) Petals four, two outerequally spurred or gibbous at the base; pod two-valved, many-seeded. Named from the Greek, on account of the two spurs orpouches. D. spectahilis is a native of China, and has be-come a great favourite on account of its beautiful flowers,which are purse-like in shape, of a clear red colour, tippedwith white, and forming a curved spike; the leaves arepeony-like. It has become hardy, but also deserves aplace in the greenhouse or room, where it flowers earlierthan w

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