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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Talks about Flowers. - -Author: M. D. Wellcome - -Release Date: August 19, 2012 [EBook #40534] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALKS ABOUT FLOWERS. *** - - - - -Produced by Jennifer Linklater, sp1nd and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40534 ***</div> <hr class="full" /> @@ -1271,7 +1233,7 @@ plants from the finest specimens. These attracted the attention of professional florists, and speedily the Pansy became a popular flower. Every country gives it a pet name—Heartsease, Fringed Violet, Trinity Flower, Butterfly flower, and Johnny-jump-up, while -the French call it <i>Pensée</i>, from which our name of Pansy is probably +the French call it <i>Pensée</i>, from which our name of Pansy is probably derived. It means to remember or keep in mind. A floral work published in 1732, illustrates it with a colored plate, which shows it to have been then small like the Ladies' Delight.</p> @@ -1562,7 +1524,7 @@ England, if it were not a superior variety.</p> <p>New Life originated with Mr. H. Cannell of Swanley England, in our Centennial year, and he sent out the first thousand by subscription -only, at £1 each—not one sold till the thousand were engaged! +only, at £1 each—not one sold till the thousand were engaged! When introduced the following year to this country, stock plants were sold for $5.00 each. Now you can purchase it at prices ranging from ten cents to thirty. It is unique in color, being @@ -2113,7 +2075,7 @@ season than are the old bulbs.</p> incredible that such superb varieties should have been produced therefrom by cross-fertilization. In the hands of the French florists it has attained to the superior position it occupies to-day. More than -forty years ago Mons. Souchet, head gardener at the Château of Fontainebleau, +forty years ago Mons. Souchet, head gardener at the Château of Fontainebleau, first called attention to this flower, and began its improvement, and although some few other French florists, such as Messrs. Courant, Berger, Lamoine, Verdier and others followed his @@ -2302,7 +2264,7 @@ A Geranium has ten stamens, and a Pelargonium has only seven are of no consequence in a general statement of the case.</p> <p>"When all is said that can be said about the differences and resemblances -of the several genera of Geraniaceæ, there remains only +of the several genera of Geraniaceæ, there remains only one constant and unfailing test of a true Pelargonium, and that is the nectariferous tube immediately below the flower, and running down one side of the flower-stalk. If you hold the pedicel up to @@ -3055,7 +3017,7 @@ an abundance of water.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span></p> -<p>The specimens I have are these: <i>Aucubæ Folium</i>—leaves large, +<p>The specimens I have are these: <i>Aucubæ Folium</i>—leaves large, dark green, blotched with golden yellow. <i>Interruptum</i>, very long leaves, mid-rib bright scarlet, shading to gold—very graceful. <i>Irregulare</i>, so named because of the irregularity of its leaves in shape @@ -3102,7 +3064,7 @@ Society of Tuscany.—<i>London Florist.</i></p> <p>Of these the varieties are numerous, and the foliage very ornamental. Those I have are <i>Dr. Hondley;</i> green ground, blotched with rose, crimson center; <i>Madame Houllette</i>,—blush clusters and -white spots on green ground; <i>Sagittæfolium pictum</i>,—arrow-shaped +white spots on green ground; <i>Sagittæfolium pictum</i>,—arrow-shaped leaves prettily spotted with white; <i>Madame Alfred Bleu</i>,—the ground color of the leaves is silvery white, which is blotched with green, in some leaves very sparingly, in others, nearly half the surface; @@ -3257,7 +3219,7 @@ Sons of Chelsea. If only required for decorative purposes there should be no inclination to make the plants produce flowers which are inconspicuous; therefore the main object should be to have plenty of healthy foliage. To secure this, the plant should be -grown in a temperature of from 65° to 70°, and if one part of the +grown in a temperature of from 65° to 70°, and if one part of the greenhouse is more adapted to its growth than another, it is the dampest part. After this plant came into the possession of Messrs. Veitch, and before its true value became known, some plants of it @@ -3299,7 +3261,7 @@ winter; if the cellar is very damp they will do better packed in sand.</p> -<h3>DRACÆNA.</h3> +<h3>DRACÆNA.</h3> <p>This is a valuable genus of ornamental plants, specially fine for the center of vases, and for pot culture. Although their culture is @@ -3307,7 +3269,7 @@ on the increase, they are not so frequently grown as they deserve. The species are very numerous, and are found in tropical countries, especially in the islands of the tropics. Many of them assume the proportions of trees. The largest specimen ever known was one -of Dracæna Draco, or the Dragon tree of Oratava in Teneriffe, one +of Dracæna Draco, or the Dragon tree of Oratava in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands. This tree was remarkable for its monstrous dimensions and prodigious longevity. About ten years since, or in the autumn of 1867, this magnificent specimen was destroyed by a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span> @@ -3336,9 +3298,9 @@ its trunk. At one time this resin formed a considerable branch of commerce, as it was used medicinally as an astringent, but it has fallen into disuse.</p> -<p>The Dracænas belong to the Lily family, and they afford a remarkable +<p>The Dracænas belong to the Lily family, and they afford a remarkable contrast to the palms and other arborescent endogens, -by their branching heads. The young trees of Dracæna Draco do +by their branching heads. The young trees of Dracæna Draco do not, however, send out any branches, even in their native localities, until they are thirty years old or more. The small plants of this species, cultivated for ornament, have always a single, straight @@ -3347,7 +3309,7 @@ proportions than those of the other kinds that will be mentioned.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p> -<p>The Dracæna is admired for its peculiar grace of form—it would +<p>The Dracæna is admired for its peculiar grace of form—it would be in vain in common house culture to expect flowers. To admire a plant for its well developed and graceful form, marks an advancement in refined taste beyond that which would induce one @@ -3358,7 +3320,7 @@ make a beautiful object of the plant itself; just as the first and main attention given to a child, for years, should be to develop and build up its physical system.</p> -<p>The Dracæna is a good house plant, a good balcony and veranda +<p>The Dracæna is a good house plant, a good balcony and veranda plant, good for the vase in the open air, and in a handsome pot is a fine ornament for table decoration. Its culture is of the simplest kind, adapting itself to any ordinarily good soil, it only requires to @@ -3374,17 +3336,17 @@ best preventives of the attack of insects. With dust on the leaves the plants look dingy, while frequent washing keeps them bright and lustrous.</p> -<p>Dracæna indivisa has long, slender, dark green leaves, about +<p>Dracæna indivisa has long, slender, dark green leaves, about three-quarters of an inch or an inch in width, and from two and a half feet to three feet in length, and the lower ones especially are very much recurved or gracefully drooping. This species is among -the hardiest of the Dracænas, and is frequently wintered in the +the hardiest of the Dracænas, and is frequently wintered in the open ground, with some protection in climates where the temperature frequently descends several degrees below the freezing point.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p> -<p>Dracæna terminalis is the most popular of the whole family in this +<p>Dracæna terminalis is the most popular of the whole family in this country, and is worthy of all the admiration bestowed upon it. The leaves are broader and more erect than those of the preceding species, and of a dark green suffused with red, or having streaks of @@ -3398,20 +3360,20 @@ eaten. A fermented beverage is also made from the juice, and its leaves are employed as fodder for cattle, and for clothing and other domestic purposes.</p> -<p>Dracæna Shepherdii is of a most noble form, and is one of the +<p>Dracæna Shepherdii is of a most noble form, and is one of the finest yet in cultivation. It has long, spreading leaves, of a metallic green, with stripes and border of bronzy-orange, and is a very free grower. Unlike most of the forms already known, which color most on the free young growth of vigorous plants, this plant takes on its distinctive coloring gradually on the older leaves.</p> -<p>Dracæna cannæfolia is an interesting species. Its peculiarity +<p>Dracæna cannæfolia is an interesting species. Its peculiarity consists in the length of petiole, which is as long as the rest of the leaf. The blade of the leaf is elliptical in form, from fifteen to twenty inches in length, firm, and of a glaucous green.</p> <p>Within a few years past much attention has been given by cultivators -in Great Britain and Europe to hybridizing the Dracæna, +in Great Britain and Europe to hybridizing the Dracæna, and producing new varieties. The most remarkable success has attended the efforts in this direction, of <span class="smcap">Mr. Bause</span>, in the establishment of <span class="smcap">Mr. Wills</span>, of Anerly, England. The variety is wonderful—"broad-leaved, @@ -3429,7 +3391,7 @@ is a bright green, with bold, white variegation, the upper leaves being white, with here and there a bar of green."—<i>Vick's Magazine.</i></p> -<h3>DRACÆNA GOLDIANA.</h3> +<h3>DRACÆNA GOLDIANA.</h3> <p>Sent out in this country for the first time in 1880, is said to be "one of the most magnificent ornamental foliage plants ever introduced, @@ -3449,9 +3411,9 @@ ten guineas per plant. We do not know the price in this country. Mr. H. A. Dreer who has an illustration of it in his catalogue, furnishes the price only on application, which is evidence that it is costly. From the type given, it must be exceedingly handsome, -and wholly unlike any Dracæna before offered in America.</p> +and wholly unlike any Dracæna before offered in America.</p> -<p>Dracænas, as we have noticed before, are particularly desirable +<p>Dracænas, as we have noticed before, are particularly desirable house plants, keeping in good condition for a long time, even in rooms where gas is burned—places so unsuited to most plants. They are liable to attacks of the Mealy Bug and the Red Spider if @@ -3476,7 +3438,7 @@ can now be severed from the stem and potted in a medium-sized pot. After keeping it a few days in the shade, it can be gradually brought out into the full light, and will be found to be established.</p> -<p>Dracænas may also be multiplied by removing the thick, fleshy +<p>Dracænas may also be multiplied by removing the thick, fleshy root that may usually be found in the base of the plant. Those tuberous roots can be potted, and if kept in a warm place will soon start and make new plants. When plants are re-potted a favorable @@ -3489,11 +3451,11 @@ received.</p> the stem; the stem may be cut into pieces an inch in length, and those pieces split in two, and all of those bits will root and become plants. They should be placed in a light, sandy soil, and given a -brisk bottom heat of 70° or 80° degrees. They will break and start +brisk bottom heat of 70° or 80° degrees. They will break and start into growth in a few days.—<i>Vick's Magazine.</i></p> <p>So fully does the foregoing express all that is needful regarding<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> -the Dracæna, we have thought best to give it entire. We might +the Dracæna, we have thought best to give it entire. We might greatly enlarge on the subject of Ornamental Foliage Plants, and speak of the beautiful Palms, so fine for decorative purposes, the pretty Ferns and elegant Aralias, of which latter "<i>Sieboldi</i> is a @@ -3809,7 +3771,7 @@ work instead and increased the stock with a view of offering it in sale to the public. It was sent out to the public at half a guinea a pair (for it has long been a custom of offering Pinks in pairs, a custom which is continued to this day), under the name of <span class="smcap">Major's</span> -Duchess of Lancaster, the orders for which amounted to £80. It +Duchess of Lancaster, the orders for which amounted to £80. It is recorded that one individual ordered as many as twenty pairs, which was considered in those days an unusually large number. It would be interesting to have a bloom of Duchess of Lancaster to @@ -4377,7 +4339,7 @@ if not so brilliant.</p> <p>This year I have a tropical bed of oblong form. A Castor Bean rises majestically in the center, two beautiful Cannas each side, -while a Dracæna, a splendid Croton, two fancy Caladiums, and a +while a Dracæna, a splendid Croton, two fancy Caladiums, and a few other choice plants fill the space, the whole bordered with Coxcombs. In a few weeks this bed will look gorgeous, and those filled with annuals will have changed from their present inattractiveness @@ -4652,7 +4614,7 @@ since flowered a small red variety, which had a very lively shade of color, and determining to make this a seed parent, it occurred to him to use on it the pollen of the single deep color Hibiscas, which, like the Abutilon, is included in the natural order -<i>Malvaceæ</i>. Mr. George thinks the fine color seen in his new variety, +<i>Malvaceæ</i>. Mr. George thinks the fine color seen in his new variety, <i>Firefly</i>, is due to this happy inspiration of color.</p> <p>The <i>Gardener's Chronicle</i> has this paragraph respecting Firefly: @@ -4813,7 +4775,7 @@ pricked out into other pots or boxes, so that they may have plenty of room and air—they are very liable to damp off if at all crowded. After pricking out they should be kept in a thrifty, growing condition, by proper attention to watering and temperature; the temperature -should be maintained as near 70° as possible, and the watering +should be maintained as near 70° as possible, and the watering be sufficient to preserve a moderate moisture.</p> <p>If the green fly attack them, it will be best to treat them to a @@ -4966,7 +4928,7 @@ we have the only stock of this beautiful flower in America." <p>This and Harrisoni, are priced at $4.50, so they must be very<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span> rare and beautiful. Aspasie, white, tinted with yellow and red; -large and perfect. Crinum Amænum, new and very beautiful, +large and perfect. Crinum Amænum, new and very beautiful, white-striped crimson. Lutea, a hardy variety, which blooms in the autumn; pure yellow. Calafornica, pure white.</p> @@ -5232,7 +5194,7 @@ is <i>persicum</i>, and many catalogues name no other. One of mine is larger and finer in every respect. Among many catalogues I find this named in only one. <i>Persicum</i>, white and pink, is a sweet scented variety from Cyprus; <i>Africanum</i>, white and rose, from -Africa; <i>hederæfolium</i>, from Britain. Other rare and expensive +Africa; <i>hederæfolium</i>, from Britain. Other rare and expensive sorts are <i>Atkinsii</i>, white, crimson and rose colored; <i>Europeum</i>, red, and <i>Coum</i>, which in the early spring months bears above its very ornamental leaves "a profusion of small bright, rosy, crimson and @@ -5571,7 +5533,7 @@ and if well-grown they will more or less continue flowering nine months out of the year. Strange to say, they need only the ordinary course of cultivation of the winter-flowering Zonal Pelargonium; hitherto they have been treated as a stove plant, -whereas they only need a temperature not higher than 50° to 60°, +whereas they only need a temperature not higher than 50° to 60°, and in the summer to have every attention, like a specimen Chrysanthemum, and on the first appearance of frost to be taken into the house, and when growing and flowering, to be supplied with @@ -5936,7 +5898,7 @@ D. C.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Gladiolus, Single Dahlias, Novelty Dahlia.</span> V. H. Hallock & Thorp, Queens, N. Y.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Coleuses—New Hybrids, Dracænas.</span> H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Coleuses—New Hybrids, Dracænas.</span> H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Chinese Primroses, New Primula, Double White Bouvardia.</span> Ellis Brothers, Keene, N. H.</p> @@ -5962,7 +5924,7 @@ Keene, N. H.</p> We are indebted to it for much of the information we have obtained respecting the culture of flowers, and have drawn largely from its pages in this work. There is a finely colored frontispiece in each number, and it is otherwise fully illustrated. -Its entire arrangement evidences the fine æsthetic taste of its editor and publisher. +Its entire arrangement evidences the fine æsthetic taste of its editor and publisher. It is very low at $1.25 per year. Beautifully bound vols., $1.75. Mr. James Vick, Rochester, N. Y.</p> @@ -6118,387 +6080,6 @@ this has been changed to match the chapter title as printed on <a href="#Page_33 <p>Pg 109, Ainwick changed to Alnwick: (<a href="#TN3">a visit to Alnwick Castle</a>).</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Talks about Flowers., by M. D. 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