. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. MAJOE CONVOLVULUS. Convolvulus major. HIS sweet old favourite is best known to botanists as Phar- bitis hispida or Ipomoea pur- purea ; but the garden name of Morning Gloiy might be sufficient for present purposes, for it is universally understood. The plant was known to Par- kinson, who, in 1656, described it as the " greater blew Bind- weede, or Bell-flower with round ; Linnaeus named it Convolvulus purpureas, un- der which na,me it was figured and described in the Botanical Magazine, 1790, tab. 113. In M
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. MAJOE CONVOLVULUS. Convolvulus major. HIS sweet old favourite is best known to botanists as Phar- bitis hispida or Ipomoea pur- purea ; but the garden name of Morning Gloiy might be sufficient for present purposes, for it is universally understood. The plant was known to Par- kinson, who, in 1656, described it as the " greater blew Bind- weede, or Bell-flower with round ; Linnaeus named it Convolvulus purpureas, un- der which na,me it was figured and described in the Botanical Magazine, 1790, tab. 113. In Miller's " Gardeners' Diction- ary " it is described as " an annual plant, whicb grows naturally in Asia and America, but has been long cultivated in English gardens by the title of Convolvulus major. Of this there are three or four lasting varieties; the most com- mon hath a purple flower, but there is one with a white,. 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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