Bulbs: a treatise on hardy and tender bulbs and tubers . side, of theflower is the handsomest part, it should be the most con-spicuous. The erect varieties should have a long, round tube, alittle swelled at the middle ; the throat to be the same color 266 THE GESNERA. all round, the sepals the same, and the divisions scarcely-perceptible. The mouth of the tube should be perfectlyround, and the sepals be blunt and smooth, forming anothercircle. THE GESNERA. A family of beautiful stove-plants, that, by regulatingtheir season of rest, may be brought into bloom at anyseason. The treatment is the s
Bulbs: a treatise on hardy and tender bulbs and tubers . side, of theflower is the handsomest part, it should be the most con-spicuous. The erect varieties should have a long, round tube, alittle swelled at the middle ; the throat to be the same color 266 THE GESNERA. all round, the sepals the same, and the divisions scarcely-perceptible. The mouth of the tube should be perfectlyround, and the sepals be blunt and smooth, forming anothercircle. THE GESNERA. A family of beautiful stove-plants, that, by regulatingtheir season of rest, may be brought into bloom at anyseason. The treatment is the same as prescribed for achi-menes and gloxinias, except that much syringing should beavoided. The foliage of many species is beautifully marked,and looks like velvet: the flowers are in long spikes, scarlet,red, or yellow, and often finely marked. They are propa-gated as gloxinias. There are about fifty species, andmany fine varieties. The families of Tydea, Mandirola, Lochiera, andSciADOCALYx, are only sections of achimenes, and needthe same
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