This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The Revue Horticole gives a colored plate of the Burchellia capensis, or rather a large variety of this very old plant, of which even a colored plate will delight the heart of those old-fashioned gardeners who can remember the time when the culture of "cape plants" was fashionable. These flower through the whole winter season, and there is possibly no branch of gardening that could possibly give more pleasure than their cultivation. It requires, however, a skill that is rare in these days, as the intelligence that formerly existed among gardeners in these lines, finds better recompense in other pursuits.
 
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