Dreer's garden calendar : 1884 . [llardia picta IMPATIENS SULTANl. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR—Suppleme7it. vii ent conditions. In th^ greenhouse it is of course quite at home; in cooler houses, too, it does wtl!,whilst strange to say, it also succeeds admirably in an open border during the summer. Hence its value as an omamenial plant is considerably ^^^^ increased, there being but few cultivated £^^\ -^^^^^iP ^^^*\ ^^ plants that adorn the greenhouse and the ^Jm- ^^^^i^^ -^ S^^fefc open border at the same time. When ^^W^XSm ^^^^^^^^^^^B^^^^^^ planted out in the open ground at the
Dreer's garden calendar : 1884 . [llardia picta IMPATIENS SULTANl. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR—Suppleme7it. vii ent conditions. In th^ greenhouse it is of course quite at home; in cooler houses, too, it does wtl!,whilst strange to say, it also succeeds admirably in an open border during the summer. Hence its value as an omamenial plant is considerably ^^^^ increased, there being but few cultivated £^^\ -^^^^^iP ^^^*\ ^^ plants that adorn the greenhouse and the ^Jm- ^^^^i^^ -^ S^^fefc open border at the same time. When ^^W^XSm ^^^^^^^^^^^B^^^^^^ planted out in the open ground at the end of June, it grows luxuriantly, flowers withthe greatest profusion (the expandedblooms seeming to be even brighter incolor than when under glass), and pro-duces an admirable effect until cut downby the frost. The flowers are of a bril-liant rosy-scarlet color, peculiarly distinctbut most effective hue, about i to i^inches in diameter, and are producedsingly or in twos and threes from the axilsof ihe leaves, especially towards the sum-mit of the stem
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