. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 101 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. The Browallias may Ije advantageously employed to embellish the greenhouse and conservatory during the summer. For this purpose we have not so great a variety of flowers as may appear from a casual consideration of the subjectj because a large proportion of decorative plants thrive so much better when planted out than when kept in pots and flowered mider glass. These little tropical forget- me-nots enjoy the shelter and comparatively uniform tem- perature of the greenhouse during the summer, and
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 101 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. The Browallias may Ije advantageously employed to embellish the greenhouse and conservatory during the summer. For this purpose we have not so great a variety of flowers as may appear from a casual consideration of the subjectj because a large proportion of decorative plants thrive so much better when planted out than when kept in pots and flowered mider glass. These little tropical forget- me-nots enjoy the shelter and comparatively uniform tem- perature of the greenhouse during the summer, and in places where the climate is usually unfavourable to tender plants in the open ground it is advisable not to plant them outj but to grow fine pot specimens for flowering in-doors. Then it will be found that the two varieties of B. eliifa, giving flowers white and Ijlue ; with B. jiiilchclla, with flowers rosy purple; B. (jrinidijlorri, with flowers yellow; and i?. /rt/«e,s'o«?', with flowers orange—will make an interesting collection. Associate with them a few fine pot specimens of the delicate sehizanthus, and the conserva- tory will not lack interest and Zlr^^. 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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