. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. YELLOW HEATH. Ei'icii I'lifnidhliiinia. flK'A Ciireiulix/iiiiini derives its name from liaviny been fiirmerly known as tlie "Duke of Devonshire's gol- ileu lieath.'^ Its liistory is in\(_jl\'e(l in some obseurity. It came into being anterior io tlie days of illustrated horticultural periodicals, and therefore obtained less atten- tion than such a tine plant Avould have attracted at the jireseut day on first appeariug- as a novelty. It was raised Ijy the INIessrs. Rollison and Sons, of the celebrated Tooting Nur- series
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. YELLOW HEATH. Ei'icii I'lifnidhliiinia. flK'A Ciireiulix/iiiiini derives its name from liaviny been fiirmerly known as tlie "Duke of Devonshire's gol- ileu lieath.'^ Its liistory is in\(_jl\'e(l in some obseurity. It came into being anterior io tlie days of illustrated horticultural periodicals, and therefore obtained less atten- tion than such a tine plant Avould have attracted at the jireseut day on first appeariug- as a novelty. It was raised Ijy the INIessrs. Rollison and Sons, of the celebrated Tooting Nur- series, by fertilising tlie Howers of Ei-'h-k (Jcjifex^a with the pollen of E. F(il,;r- â 10111. Both these have yel- low flowers, and the Cavendish hybrid is a, Huer plant than either of them, and jiarticularly well adapted for sjjecimen cultivation. In the times that are spoken of as the "palmy cia^s of Chiswick," the Cavendish. 'H. 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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