. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 'I'KE HELTOTROPE. JJr/'o/ropi/(in cor;/htlw^^niH. HE heliotrope is iu some t'onn or other one ot the most aiieieiil of Howers ; but the one before us, being a native of Peru, is (jf neeessity modern, its lutroilue- tion dating' from the year LSOH. Iu other papers on marigolds and sundoweis we have re- marked that all Howers are sunliowers more or less, beeause tliey look towards the sun; and hence it is that many, sueh as the miner convolvulus and the tigridia (to name onh' two out of thousands), can onl}- Ije seen to advan
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 'I'KE HELTOTROPE. JJr/'o/ropi/(in cor;/htlw^^niH. HE heliotrope is iu some t'onn or other one ot the most aiieieiil of Howers ; but the one before us, being a native of Peru, is (jf neeessity modern, its lutroilue- tion dating' from the year LSOH. Iu other papers on marigolds and sundoweis we have re- marked that all Howers are sunliowers more or less, beeause tliey look towards the sun; and hence it is that many, sueh as the miner convolvulus and the tigridia (to name onh' two out of thousands), can onl}- Ije seen to advantage when they are on the north side of the spec- tator—a matter of some im[)(U'tance in the arrangement of gardens. Rut, not to go into that larger matter, wc have before us no .v a. heliotrope the name of which no one can account for. It is the turnsole of the garden—tlie Hower that turns to King Sol; but it has no s])ecial claim til l)e so distinguished. There is, indeed, another I'eruviaii plant that has a claim, and it is the helianthus, the yellow. 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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