The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . \ w w. Fig. 134 —mis sofarana [Photograph by C. P. DARK PURPLE ON A CREAM-WHITE GROUND. most black, the crests being blotched with purpleveining on a yellow ground. Dykes, in TheGenus Iris, states that the plant is a localcolour-form that cannot be distinguished from or I. Susiana by anything but thecolour. The specimen illustrated in fig. 134 shows,how well the plant grows and flowers in theRoyal Botanic Garden, Kew. fused with the Hakeas and Dryandras, bothAustralian gen
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . \ w w. Fig. 134 —mis sofarana [Photograph by C. P. DARK PURPLE ON A CREAM-WHITE GROUND. most black, the crests being blotched with purpleveining on a yellow ground. Dykes, in TheGenus Iris, states that the plant is a localcolour-form that cannot be distinguished from or I. Susiana by anything but thecolour. The specimen illustrated in fig. 134 shows,how well the plant grows and flowers in theRoyal Botanic Garden, Kew. fused with the Hakeas and Dryandras, bothAustralian genera, but they are distinctenough in their flowers. The most gorgeous ofall the Proteas of Australia is the Waratah,Telopea speciosissima, which forms a shrub about6 feet high with elongated Oak-like leaves onstout, erect branches, terminated by a conicalhead 6 inches by 4 inches, of rich crimson flowersand bracts. There is a good figure of it in the at a considerable elevation. The nearly ellip-tical fall is dark purple, almost black, thecolouring being due to the thick-set, reticulate,blotche
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