The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . (Shuwuby llieSt, :. 10?.-tv Ce„ i \ <u(eca,t. 185; it has pink flowers,with a ring of darker colour at the throat. Thespecies is said to have been first cultivated in Europeat Lille in 1731,* having been introduced fromPersia. There must have been some error as to itsorigin, for Boissier points out that the species is notfound in that In all probability it wasobtained from Syria. The Lille plant ultimately wentto Ghent, and it has been asserted that all the culti- Lq Semaine HorticoU, 3*0
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . (Shuwuby llieSt, :. 10?.-tv Ce„ i \ <u(eca,t. 185; it has pink flowers,with a ring of darker colour at the throat. Thespecies is said to have been first cultivated in Europeat Lille in 1731,* having been introduced fromPersia. There must have been some error as to itsorigin, for Boissier points out that the species is notfound in that In all probability it wasobtained from Syria. The Lille plant ultimately wentto Ghent, and it has been asserted that all the culti- Lq Semaine HorticoU, 3*07, p. ttotti Oriental**, vol 4, p 12. with a bright purple bottom It was fi^urtd in tl eBotanical Magazine in 1787, t. 44, and it has co».edown little altered to our own day. In 1875 Boissierdescribes it as forma hortensis a me nunquamspontanea visa. It still exists in cultivation, and isthe (old) crimson and white of Messrs. seems
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