. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 180 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II. flower is umbellate, as in comus. Sometimes the proliferous issue of the full flower is not itself a flower, but a shoot furnished with leaves, as has been sometimes, though rarely, observed in the case of the anemone a
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 180 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II. flower is umbellate, as in comus. Sometimes the proliferous issue of the full flower is not itself a flower, but a shoot furnished with leaves, as has been sometimes, though rarely, observed in the case of the anemone and rose. Such are the several varieties of luxuriant flowers, constituting anomalies of excess; but it sometimes happens that there is also in the flower an anomaly of defect in the absence of one of Its parts. Examples of this sort are occasionally to be met with in the flowers of cherianthus cheri, cam- panula pentagonia, and tussilago anandria, in which the corolla is altogether wanting, though proper to the species; and in this case the flower is said to be mutilated. Sometimes the anomaly con- sists in the situation of the flower, which is generally protruded from the extremity or sides of the branches. But the flower of the ruscus is protruded from the surface of the leaf; or it may consist in the relative situation of the several parts of the flower. In simple flowers the pistil is invariably central with regard to the stamens ; but in compound flowers the pistils are often situated in the circumference and the stamens in the centre. This seems to be the case also with some monoecious plants having their flowers on the same peduncle, as in the examples of the carex and arum, in which the stamens are more central than the pistils. Sometimes the anomaly consists in the color of the corolla, which will often deviate even in the same species. The general color of the common cowslip (Primula veris) is a bright yellow; but an individual is occasionally to be met with, though
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