. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE PETUNIA. I'dniiu! p]:t:>i. iLTUNIA PHCKNICEA is lui- kiKiwn in tlie land of the PLunii- eiiiDS, being a. native oi' Buenos Ayres, wlienee it was introduced in iSol. jV-s a matter of eoursej the s}iirited niaritlnie nation wlio built T^'i'e and Sidon^ and \'\'lio in their day were proud of their King- Hiram, li-iend of Solomon^ knew nothing of any kind of |ietunia, because, to use the lan- guage of a familiar song, the New AAdrld " had not then been ; And yet in a certain way^ by the involut
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE PETUNIA. I'dniiu! p]:t:>i. iLTUNIA PHCKNICEA is lui- kiKiwn in tlie land of the PLunii- eiiiDS, being a. native oi' Buenos Ayres, wlienee it was introduced in iSol. jV-s a matter of eoursej the s}iirited niaritlnie nation wlio built T^'i'e and Sidon^ and \'\'lio in their day were proud of their King- Hiram, li-iend of Solomon^ knew nothing of any kind of |ietunia, because, to use the lan- guage of a familiar song, the New AAdrld " had not then been ; And yet in a certain way^ by the involutions of lan- guagCj this plant takes us round ay of South jVnierica to the eastern ?s of the IMediterraneaDj for it is a Phceniciau flower^ and righth' named, and we are Ijound to connect it with the intelligent sailor race who brought the ideas and the gold of the to the southern and western coasts of this country, and took away in exchange the tin of Cornwall, and the report of our wealth of timber and the suitableness of these isles for 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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