This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
A fine epiphyte, flowers large, pale green, the lip yelowish green, with broad black veins, and stains. Borneo. Stove epiphyte. Messrs. Low.
Showy; flowers like Wiegela rosea, white inside, pink without, in rich terminal panicles. Columbia. Stove shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.
A variety of well-known Orchid with deep purple flowers, the lip ribbed with yellow. Borneo. Stove epiphyte. J. Knowles, Esq.
A fine showy Orchid somewhat resembling C. insigne; flowers green, brown, and purple. Moulmein. Stove perennial. Messrs. Veitch.
A remarkably showy plant, having the light rosy-colored flowers four times as large as usual. Appears to have been obtained, without history, from the Continent. Messrs. Veitch.
A lovely glossy, holly-like, evergreen shrub, with long tabular flowers of scarlet and yellow. Valdivia. Hardy evergreen shrub. Messrs. Veitch.
Neat and pretty; the leaves longitudinally blotched with brown, and pink beneath; the flowers white and purple. Supposed to come from Brazil. Stove perennial. Messrs. Low.
The so-called yellow Wiegela; a hardy shrub, with primrose-colored flowers, half as large as those of W. rosea. Received on the Continent eta Russia.
Variegated leaves; flowers greenish. Ornamental in foliage and habit Java. Stove evergreen shrub. Messrs. Low.
See Neriandra suberecta.
A fine evergreen proteaceous shrub, allied to Telopea. From Chili. Probably half-hardy. Messrs. Standish & Noble.
Pretty; flowers numerous, pinkish-white. Merida. Green-house shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.
Neat and desirable, the habit being compact and dwarf; the flowers are yellow, an inch across. California. Hardy annual Messrs. Veitch.
Graceful; flowers white in axillary panicles. History not given. Green-house evergreen shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.
One of the finest of the Francisceas; flowers large, rich lilac-purple, paler after expansion. Brazil. Stove evergreen shrub. Chelsea Bot. Garden.
A fine tree, with purple branches, green foliage, and elegant white flowers. New Mexico. Hardy tree. F. Scheer, Esq.
A very showy plant, bearing panicles of rich crimson Gloxinia-like flowers. A hybrid, said to have been raised between Gesnera discolor and Gloxinia rubra, in the Ghent Bot. Garden.
Ornamental, requiring the treatment of tender annuals; flower-heads brilliant orange color. Mexico. Warm green-house perennial. M. Vilmorin, Paris.
Curious; the flowers dull green with obscure netting, and fine bright yellow coronal teeth. Brazil. Coarse stove climber. Messrs. Weeks & Co.
A very beautiful herbaceous plant, the flowers of which are deep blue, spotted with white. Northern China. Supposed to be quite hardy. Messrs. Standish & Noble.
Coarse, but showy; flowers deep purple. Sylhet. Soft-wooded stove shrub. Kew Bot. Garden.
A neat shrub with fragrant white flowers. Caffraria. Green-house evergreen shrub. Messrs. Backhouse.
A plant of considerable promise; resembles a broad-leaved Diosma; flowers surrounded by a cup-shaped involucre which is greenish white, stained with dull red, in which involucre resides the beauty of the plant New Holland. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Messrs. Garraway.
Showy; flowers large yellow, in pendant racemes. India. Stove evergreen climber. Messrs. Veitch.
Very showy; the flowers deep crimson, like the Jacobean Lily in color, but larger, and of the form of H. vittatum. History unknown. Stove bulb. G. Leach Esq.
A pretty little plant, covered with a multitude of beautiful azure flowers, against which the stamens stand out like silver stars. Mexico. Green-house branching perennial M. Linden, Brussels.
Interesting. A bulbo-tuberous plant, with star-shaped yellow flowers. Natal. Green-house perennial. Kern Bot. Garden.
A splendid Amaryllidaceous plant, allied to 'Clivia; flowers large, in a fine umbel, vermillion colored. Natal. Green-house perennial. Messrs. Backhouse.
An old name, proposed to be revived, for one of the handsomest of border flowers, bearing a dense ovate cylindrical head of rich orange scarlet flowers. From the Cape, introduced long since, and known as Tritoma.
A handsome, fragrant, fleshy-leaved evergreen shrub, from the mountains of Chili. Hardiness not ascertained. Messrs. Standish & Noble.
A deeper colored variety of this exceedingly pretty half-hardy annual California. Messrs. Veitch.
A splendid annual when obtained true, but a large-flowered common flax is often sold under this name; flowers large crimson. Algiers. Introduced from Paris.
Said to be pretty; flowers red, expanding in succession the whole summer. Mexico. Green-house perennial. M. Linden, Brussels.
A fine, robust-looking, hardy fern, of ornamental character. Chili. Messrs. Veitch, and Messrs. Standish & Noble.
A fine evergreen proteaceous shrub, also called Embothrium ferru-gineum ; fine dark, twice-divided foliage. Chili. Green-house evergreen shrub. Messrs. Veitch, and Messrs. Standish & Noble.
 
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