Archive image from page 314 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofam03bail Year: 1900 PHYTEUMA soil in eitlier border or rockery. A very critical review of Phyteumas from the garden standpoint is given by 'D. K.' in Gn. 28, pp. 91, 92 (ISS), from â nhicb tlie following points are abstracted. The s
Archive image from page 314 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofam03bail Year: 1900 PHYTEUMA soil in eitlier border or rockery. A very critical review of Phyteumas from the garden standpoint is given by 'D. K.' in Gn. 28, pp. 91, 92 (ISS), from â nhicb tlie following points are abstracted. The smallest species, as P. liumile and pauciflornni, should be planted by tliemselves or with other very dwarf alpines, so thrri 111 ;, ull II. I I'- by taller and coarser sul'.i'' ill :, I, i ; ii'tiustand easiest species is/'. I limps of which attain 3 ft. in (Ikiiii. iihii 'ii-''\\ J II. tiiLjh. 8uch a clump makes a iinecenlerpnM-e ior a lluwcr-bed and blooms throni;li .Tuly and Aug. Similar to it but inferior is P. ,',, with lighter blue fls. Both have oblonj; nii-. as also do P. Halleri and P. spicaliim; lurmi r growing a foot high in dry, sunny sputa in a south- ern border, the latter attaining IK ft. on sunny rock- work. At the other extreme as regards habit, ease of culture and style of inflorescence, is P. comosnm, which in rockeries requires renewal everj' few years. A stock should therefore be constantly kept in pots. In the rockery it likes a shady position and in winter the crown should be covered with coarse sand; water freely from the time growth starts until flow, rir.:: I . . iii-. Treated as a pot-plant it is more easily n , : 1 , li-ht soil well mixed with pieces of saint i . size of marbles and wedge the roots til. i i y hard stone; plunge the pots in cool inaieiial auj y:se partial t)f the other round-clustered types the following are very much alike; , ticheuchzeri, Churmelii and Michelii. P. heniisp7il'.
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