The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 2 - or Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis
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page 33 of 65 (50%)
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common green-house, with no more heat than is just necessary to keep out
the frost, indeed it may be preserved in a common hot-bed frame through the winter, unless the weather prove very severe. Certain plants are particularly liable to be infested with _Aphides_, or, in the vulgar phrase, to become lousy, this is one: the only way to have handsome, healthy, strong-flowering plants, is to procure a constant succession by cuttings, for there is no plant strikes more readily; these should be placed in a pot, and plunged into a bed of tan. [54] ~Anemone sylvestris, Snowdrop Anemony.~ _Class and Order._ ~Polyandria Polygynia.~ _Generic Character._ _Calyx_ nullus. _Petala_ 6-9. _Semina_ plura. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ ANEMONE _sylvestris_ pedunculo nudo, feminibus subrotundis, hirsutis, muticis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 510._ |
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