. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1204 PANSY petals standing apart from each other. The "Upright Heartsease," or Viola assurgens tricolor, is represented as a stouter and more erect plant, with rounder but scarcely larger flowers. These are described as follows: "The Hearts-ease or Pansi
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1204 PANSY petals standing apart from each other. The "Upright Heartsease," or Viola assurgens tricolor, is represented as a stouter and more erect plant, with rounder but scarcely larger flowers. These are described as follows: "The Hearts-ease or Pansie hath many round leaves at the first comraing up; afterward they grow somewhat longer, sleightly cut about the edges, trailing or creeping upon the ground: the stalks are weake and tender, whereupon grow ttoures in form & figure like the Vio- let, and for the most part of the same bignesse, of three sundry colours, whereof it tooke the syrname Tricolor, that is to say, purple, yellow and white or blew; by rea- son of the beauty and braverie of which colours they flre very pleasing to the eye, for smel they have little or none at all. The seed is contained in little knaps of the begnesse of a Tare, which come forth after the floures be fallen, and do open of themselves when the seed is ripe. The root is nothing else but as it were a bundle of threddy strings. "The upright Pansie bringeth forth long leaves deeply cut in the edges, sharp-pointed, of a bleake or pale green colour, set upon slender, upright stalks, cornered, jointed, or kneed a foot high or higher; whereupon grow very fairs floures of three colours, viz., of purple, blew and yellow in shape like the com- mon Hearts-ease, but greater and fairer; which colours are so excellently and orderly placed, that they bring great delight to the beholders, though they have little or no smell at all: for oftentimes it hapneth that the uppermost floures are differing from those that grow upon the middle of the plant, and
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