. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Sro VE PLANTS. 265. a fine plant by submitting it to greenhouse treatment during winter. The excellence of this charming plant is so great that it should never be absent from any gentleman's garden where there is a house having sufficient warmth for its growth. One of the curiosities of the vegetal kingdom is the Semaphore plant, the Desmodium gyrans (fig. 547). Under favourable circumstances th&pinncs of the leaves move up and down in a manner similar to the semaph
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Sro VE PLANTS. 265. a fine plant by submitting it to greenhouse treatment during winter. The excellence of this charming plant is so great that it should never be absent from any gentleman's garden where there is a house having sufficient warmth for its growth. One of the curiosities of the vegetal kingdom is the Semaphore plant, the Desmodium gyrans (fig. 547). Under favourable circumstances th&pinncs of the leaves move up and down in a manner similar to the semaphore by which telegraphic messages were transmitted before the voltaic battery gave to us the means of working the electric telegraph. I have watched with great interest the movements of this plant at Kew, and was so desirous to watch it again that I begged plants from thence and from the Botanical Society. Strange to say, however, in my garden I never till lately saw the plant move ; but why it falsified its name I am totally at a loss to explain. We do not grow Stove Palms, as they require much space. It is interesting to plant date-stones, which readily grow, and soon make fair- sized plants. They require almost a stove temperature during winter, but will live out of doors in summer. The Date Palm will not grow further north than the shores of the Mediterranean, and even as far south as Naples it will not ripen its fruit, which perishes in winter. Palms and Cycads are very desirable plants for warm con- servatories. At Bordighera, on the Riviera, beside the Mediterranean, the Palms are grown for the decoration of St. Peter's at Rome on Palm Sunday. The Cape Jasmine {Gardenia florida, fig. â 548) is one of the most highly and deliciously scented plants. I have had many fine plants, but they have always perished, because they require warmth at fig. 548âGardenia florida, the roots and abundance of light. Those grown for the flower-markets are usually cu
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