. 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. Ha loi'agecE—Gttn nera. 193 all south of the equator, in Africa, America, Australia, and the Antarctic Islands. So named in honour of a Swedish botanist. 1. G. seabra (fig. 102).—This is remarkable for its large Rhubarb-like leaves with prickly petioles, and the large club-. 102. Gunnera seabra. (^^^j nat. size.) shaped spike of innumerable small flower
. 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. Ha loi'agecE—Gttn nera. 193 all south of the equator, in Africa, America, Australia, and the Antarctic Islands. So named in honour of a Swedish botanist. 1. G. seabra (fig. 102).—This is remarkable for its large Rhubarb-like leaves with prickly petioles, and the large club-. 102. Gunnera seabra. (^^^j nat. size.) shaped spike of innumerable small flowers of a reddish tinge. A native of Chili, requiring slight protection in severe weather. Oedee ^. This vast order furnishes us with very few hardy subjects; in fact, not a single species that will withstand the climate throughout the kingdom. It includes about seventy-five genera and some 2,000 species, all of which are shrubby or arborescent. They are especially abundant in South America and Australia. The Gum-trees {EucalyjAua) of the latter coimtry number nearly 150 species. Some of the slower- growing kinds may prove hardy in this country, but most of them grow so rapidly and make so much wood in one season that it does not ripen, and is cut back by frost. One slow- growing species {E. pulverulenta) was formerly represented in Kew Gardens by a specimen about .30 feet high, which must 0. 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. Botting (William Botting), 1843-1924; Decaisne, J. (Joseph) Manuel de l'amateur des jardins. Boston, Estes & Lauriat
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