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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
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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a most splendid conservatory plant; that is, thatit is well adapted for planting in the border of the conservatory or greenhouse.A good loamy soil, with a small proportion of heath mould and white sand, and aslight addition of decayed manure, will be found most suitable; and, if kept ina pot, the plant should be frequently shifted as it progresses in size. It may be very readily propagated from cuttings, and most probably fromseeds likewise, if the latter can be properly matured; the cuttings merely requiringto be planted in sandy loam, covered with a hand-glass, and kept in a gentle heat. Its native country is Mexico, from whence a number of plants were broughtto London in the autumn of 1837 > and, if the lateral shoots are allowed to remain,it will flower throughout the greater part of the season. For our diawing we are indebted to Mr. Low, of the Clapton nursery, whereit was taken in the month of July of the present year. It may be purchased fora moderate sum of any nurseryman.
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I iu/ru/z^/Z 223 POTENTILLA FERRUGINEA. (llUSTY-BriOWN FI.OWKRF.D CINQUKFOIT.. )CLASS. ORDER. ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. NATURAL ORUF.R. ROSACEA. Gkneric Character.—Calyx tubular, concave, limb four to five tootlipd, with four or five bractcte.Petals four or five. Stamens indefinite. Carpella indefinite, inclining to the side of the style,attached to the receptacle, persistent, dry, capitate. Seed protruding. Specific Character.—jP/anf • perennial, herbaceous, growing from eighteen-inches to three feet high.Stems numerous, much branched. Leaves petiolate, pedate, rugose, serrated; lobes nearly equal,slightly hairy. Calyx of five, ovately lanceolate, acute segments, with five similar bractea.Corolla rusty-brown, approaching to orange. In almost every flower-bed or border throughout the more populous parts ofthis country may be seen some one or other of the very interesting species of Poten-tilla. There is a simple beauty and elegance in their habits and flowers whichseems to ensure f

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