. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture . FIG. 0.—LOWER HALF OF THE LEAF. ment vras tried in IS39 by M,Neumann of the Jardin des that Theophrdsta longifolia. FIG. 10.—UPPER HALF OF THE LEAF. {Clavija ornata Don) would grow-readily from a cutting formed of aleaf, he conceived the idea of cuttinga leaf in two, and trying to strike both parts. He did so, plunging theplants in the pit of a hothouse, and ^ succeeded in striking both ;
. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture . FIG. 0.—LOWER HALF OF THE LEAF. ment vras tried in IS39 by M,Neumann of the Jardin des that Theophrdsta longifolia. FIG. 10.—UPPER HALF OF THE LEAF. {Clavija ornata Don) would grow-readily from a cutting formed of aleaf, he conceived the idea of cuttinga leaf in two, and trying to strike both parts. He did so, plunging theplants in the pit of a hothouse, and ^ succeeded in striking both ; but he found that though the lower half ofthe leaf made roots in three months(see fig 9), the upper half {fig. 10)was nearly double that time before : it was quite established. The dottedlines in fig. 10 show where portions j of the leaf were cut off. In June,1840, the two half leaves had becomebeautiful and healthy plants, whichit was impossible to distinguishfrom those struck in the usualmanner. Half leaves of variousplants have also been rooted incharcoal, in Germany. Cyanus.—The Com Centaurea. GYCAS.—Ci/cadece.—A kind ofherbaceous Palm, requiring the heatof a stove, and remarkable for itscurious root-like stem, and enormousfern-like leaves. It very rarely pro-duces seed in England, and w
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