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Title: The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Nicholson, George, 1847-1908
Subjects: Gardening Horticulture Plants, Ornamental
Publisher: Hyde Park, Mass. : Geo. T. King London : L. Upcott Gill
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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t, one of the best; Lord Dunraven,crimson-scarlet, large, floriferous, and of good habit; REV. G. T.Little, fiery-crimson, of medium size, excellent. Rose-coloured: DucuESS OF Marluoroloh (see Fig. 167), lightsalmon-pink, fine form and erect habit; Lucerne, salmon-rose, of fine substance; Lady Mary Wood, salmnn-rose, verylarge, one of the best; Miss Thompson, rosy-pink, dwarf andfree; Nurse Mary Cornell, rosy-salmon, very double, com-pact and free; Rosette, carmine-rose, of good size and sub-stance, compact and free. White-Jtouered: BLANCHE DuVAL. white, tinted blush, largeand free; Diamond Jubilee (see Fig. 168), creamy-white, dwarfbushy habit, very fine ; Lady Theodore Guest, white, one ofthe finest, with bold erect habit; MiSS EMILY CHILD, white,tinged with pink, very large, of good form and remarkablyfloriferous; Miss Griffiths (see Fig. 170), a lovely shade, itsdouble flowers having crimped petals, of excellent habit; Mrs.1errira (see Fig. 169), white, good form, large, and free.
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Fig. 170. Begonia Miss GRiriinis. Yello^v-flouxred: Marchioness of Salisbury, canary-yellow,large, free, and of bushy habit; Mrs. R. Christian, softyellow, large and very double, sturdy, and floriferous; Queenof the Begonias, orange-yellow, of large size, gi*eat substance,and sjdendid habit. BEHNIA (a commemorative name). Stns. Didyojpsis, Bylonome. Okd. Liliaceae. A monotypie genus. The species is a greenhouse climber, with the habit of Myrsiphylliua (which see for culture.) B, reticulata (not-veined). Ji. greenish, jin. long, in simple or slightly compound cymes from the axils of the upper leaves. I. alternate, sessile, ovate, acute, rounded at base, 2in. to 3in. long, firm, green, glossy, with a distinct midrib, and five to seven strongly-marked vertical veins on each side, connected by close cross-veinlets (these have a beautiful effect when the leaves are dried). Stems glabrous, woody, terete, unarmed, copiously branched. South Africa, 1867. (B. M. 5638, under name of Dictyopais
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