This section is from the book "The Gardener V3", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
This is another class of plants which come in for a good share of attention from those who have a large demand on them in keeping the conservatory gay. I will only give the names of a few we have found good for forcing, and refer all to the able articles in the back numbers of the 'Gardener' for the present year for the treatment of this grand tribe of plants: Proecox, Alta Clarense, Noblieanum, Venus, Regalia, Minnie, Brayanum, Lady Eleanor Cathcart, Mrs John Waterer, Comet; greenhouse sorts, Ciliatum, Countess of Haddington, Edgworthii, Jasminiflorum, Javanicum, Princess Alexandra, Princess Helena, Princess Royal, Veitchianum, and many others which we have not had an opportunity of testing.
 
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