. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. L NOWN to science as a member of the Sterculia family, which veiy ' closely resembles the Mallows in mucilaginous properties, the Ma- hernia is a pretty little shrub growing from eighteen to twenty-four inches in height. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and with careful cviltivation and a fair share of sunshine it will pr
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. L NOWN to science as a member of the Sterculia family, which veiy ' closely resembles the Mallows in mucilaginous properties, the Ma- hernia is a pretty little shrub growing from eighteen to twenty-four inches in height. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and with careful cviltivation and a fair share of sunshine it will produce an abun- dance of sweet-scented, yellow, cup-like flowers during the whole win- ter and spring. The branches are slender and the leaves laciniate, or ' lightly slashed, and small, making a pretty mass of foliage if well kept in by pinching or tying back. It delights in a free exposure to the atmosphere, pro- vided this is not excessively cold, and its favorite normal temperature would be somewhere from sixty to seventy degrees, though it will not suffer from the heat unless this ascend to the nineties. It should not, therefore, be crowded out or even shadowed by other plants, but be given plenty of room for roots and branches. The best soil for the Mahernia is, two parts of leaf-mold, one of common earth, one of cow- . 2^^^ %. 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 Turner, Cordelia Harris; Turner, Cordelia Harris. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Chicago : M. Warren
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