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English flower garden of hardy and half-hardy plants
English flower garden of hardy and halfhardy plants Author:William Thompson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HABROTHAMNUS FASCICULATUS. Fascicled ITabrothamnu. Lintuan Clan—Pkntandria. Order—Mo.vootnia, Natural Order— Solanace.k. Although not the handsomest specie... more »s of the genus, the Jlabrothamnut fatcicvlatui is well worthy a place in every garden where a suitable situation for it can be found. The plant has been unfairly condemned by some growers, doubtless from their ignorance of its proper treatment; but we are satisfied that all who admit it into their collections and give it a fair trial, will not readily discard it. In its native country, Mexico, it is an evergreen, and in the conservatory or greenhouse it retains this character; but when grown fully exposed in our climate, it sheds its leaves, or, at least, all but those at the extremities of the shoots, The foliage partakes of the coarseness so common among plants of the Order; but this is amply compensated for by the abundance with which its numerous clusters of orange-scarlet tubular blossoms are produced. The young shoots are clothed with a short reddish pubescence, by which it is distinguished from H. corymbogus; but the partially ripened wood retains but little of this woolliness. It is almost too robust a plant for pot cultivation ; but where sufficient room can be afforded, it will flower freely ; and as a proof of this, wo may remark, that the specimen from which our drawing was made was grown in an eight-inch pot. Although, therefore, there can be no doubt that it is seen to the greatest advantage against a wall, yet for the benefit of those who may desire to cultivate it in a pot, we subjoin the best mode of treatment. In order to obtain handsome specimens of the plant, some care is necessary in its early management, or the sterna are apt to become leggy, in consequence of its natural disposition to grow ...« less