. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. AUBICULi. STAGE. CHAPTER XXX. THE FLORIST-FLOWER GARDEN. 1650. Floriculture assumes to itself the care of a section of our oldest and most charming flowers which it claims as its own ; and truly it has shown itself not unworthy of the charge, for off one flower alone,—the ranunculus, it has established upwards of a thousand named and truly beautiful varieties. The florist's flower-garden comprises, besides the dahlia, hollyhock, and chrysanthemum, which we have treated as
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. AUBICULi. STAGE. CHAPTER XXX. THE FLORIST-FLOWER GARDEN. 1650. Floriculture assumes to itself the care of a section of our oldest and most charming flowers which it claims as its own ; and truly it has shown itself not unworthy of the charge, for off one flower alone,—the ranunculus, it has established upwards of a thousand named and truly beautiful varieties. The florist's flower-garden comprises, besides the dahlia, hollyhock, and chrysanthemum, which we have treated as autumnal-flowering plants,— I. Tulip ; II. the Polyanthus; III. Auricula; IV. Heai-tsease or Pansy; V. the Anemone ; VI. Cai-nation ; VII. Pink ; VIII. Picotee ; IX. Hyacinth. Not satisfied with these old favourites, however, the florist claims all of our new importations which will "sport," as he is pleased to term it, into well- marked varieties. In this manner he has laid violent hands on the rose, the hollyhock, the fuchsia, cinerarias, the geranium, and some others of our most beautiful garden flowers. Not, however, without resistance has he been able to call these gems of the flower-garden his own. Many there are who deny his right to divest the wild and beautiful rose of its graceful habit of growth and its flower of fragrance, with its innumerable folds and volutes as presented by nature ; into a stifi" formal florist's flower; or transform the graceful droop- ing habit of the fuchsia into a series of circles and mathematical forms. He modestly tells us, however, that all flowering-plants, with certain distinguish- ing characteristics, come within his domain. These characteristics are— Continuous-Blooming.—For which scarlet geraniums, verbenas, heliotropes, and calceolarias, are given as examples. Elegance of Habit.—As in the rose, the fuchsia, and many evergreens. 2m. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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