. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE CALCEOLARIA. (.'alcajldrii' hi/brida. VIIIBITIONS have so greatly in- liueneed Horleultural tastes that we may be forgiven if for a moment we permit this flower to stir old memories. In the Course of the fifty or sixty }'ears that it has Leen in cultivation it las passed through all the jthases incident to a proper florists' dower, md happily it remains for such as ( an enjoy it, though it has fallen from its high estate. This may, to the reader who is uninitiated in the lioial mysteries, appear to be a dread- lul fate
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE CALCEOLARIA. (.'alcajldrii' hi/brida. VIIIBITIONS have so greatly in- liueneed Horleultural tastes that we may be forgiven if for a moment we permit this flower to stir old memories. In the Course of the fifty or sixty }'ears that it has Leen in cultivation it las passed through all the jthases incident to a proper florists' dower, md happily it remains for such as ( an enjoy it, though it has fallen from its high estate. This may, to the reader who is uninitiated in the lioial mysteries, appear to be a dread- lul fate for such a beautiful thing. I)ut indeed it is not. When the fl iwer was rising into fame the florists -;a\e names to their choice varieties, ind these were jjropagated by divi- sions and cuttings, to maintain them in the fnll integrity of their floral characters. But the fashion for named. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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