. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 838 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Past III. Subsect. 5. Crocus. — Crocus, L. Trian. Monog. L. and Iridea, B. P. Safran, Fr. • Safran, Ger. ; and Zaffarano, Ital. 6285. The bulb of the crocus is round, solid, and compressed, with a netted skin, from the centre o
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 838 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Past III. Subsect. 5. Crocus. — Crocus, L. Trian. Monog. L. and Iridea, B. P. Safran, Fr. • Safran, Ger. ; and Zaffarano, Ital. 6285. The bulb of the crocus is round, solid, and compressed, with a netted skin, from the centre of which arise four or five grass-like leaves, and one or two flowers. Out of the centre of the tube of the flower arises a slender style, crowned by a broad flat stigma of a gold color. After the flower is past, the germ, which hitherto was seated on the bulb at the base of the tube, pushes out of the ground, and ripens its seeds; a singular economy in nature, and which occurs only in the colchicum, and a few other plants. All the known species of this genus may be considered as florists' flowers. Many botanists, indeed, reckon only two species, the C. vermis, or spring-blowing crocus; and the C. sativus, the saffron, or autumn crocus. From the Crocvs remits (Eng. Bot. 343. and our Jjg. 596.), they consider that the C. versicolor {Jig. 597.), the C -bijlorus {Jig. 598. a), the C susiana (b), the C. sulphureus (c), and the C mesianus (d and e), with their numerous subvarieties, have been produced by culture or locality From the Crocus sativus, or saffron-crocus {Eng. Bat. 343. and our Jig. 599. a), they think it likely that the C. serotinus {fig. 599. b) and the C. nudiflorus (fig. 599. c) have been also originated by cultivation or 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 Loudon, J. C.
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