. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. CompositcB— Ca Uistephus. 233 6. CALLISTfiPHUS (GalUstemma). The only species we have to allude to under this head is the all-familiar China Aster, sometimes called Aster Sinensis. This genus is characterised by having an involucre of many fringed bracts, a pitted naked receptacle, and a double pappus. The name is from koXos, beautiful, and aTe(f)dv7],
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. CompositcB— Ca Uistephus. 233 6. CALLISTfiPHUS (GalUstemma). The only species we have to allude to under this head is the all-familiar China Aster, sometimes called Aster Sinensis. This genus is characterised by having an involucre of many fringed bracts, a pitted naked receptacle, and a double pappus. The name is from koXos, beautiful, and aTe(f)dv7], a crown. 1. C. hortensis. China Aster, Eeine-Marguerite.—This beau- tiful plant was introduced towards the end of the last century, and was raised in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris from seeds sent thither from China by the Jesuit missionary, Father d'ln- carville. Being of annual duration, and incapable of being propagated except from seeds, numerous varieties have resulted from its extensive cultivation. In the wild state the flowers are single, that is to say, only the outer florets are strap-shaped, and usually of a rosy-lilac tint, with yellowish disk-florets. But under cultivation all the florets have become ligulate or quilled, and a richness and varietyof colouring has been developed scarcely surpassed in anyone species,ranging from pure white to deep carmine and violet and nearly blue, though the yellow of the disk in the single has not been repro- duced in the double forms. We are mainly indebted to French horticulturists, nota- bly Truffaut, Fontaine, and Vilmorin, for the o-reat perfection to which the different races have been brought. It is worthy of remark that these varieties are so far fixed that they will come true from care-. 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 Hemsley, W.
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