The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrate

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Title: The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Andrews, Henry Charles, fl. 1799-1828 Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835, printer Haworth, Adrian Hardy, 1768-1833 Kennedy, John, 1759-1842 Jackson, George, d. 1811 Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plants, Cultivated Botany Flowers
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... : To be had of J. White, Fleet-street, and all the booksellers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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labris ; flori-bus pendulis, minutis, albis. Pogonia with leaves eliptically Iance-fhaped,fmooth; flowers hanging down, fmall andwhite. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, magnified. 2. A Blofibm cut open, with the Chives in their place. 3. A Chive, magnified. 4. The Pointal and Seed-bud, natural fize. 5. The fame magnified. This plant from New Holland, is rather more delicate than moft of thofe we poflefs from that country,as it is apt to lofe its leaves if expofed either to damps, or much cold. It was first raifed in the year1790, by the late Mr. Robertfon, of Stockwell; is eafily propagated by cuttings, and flowers inJanuary, or February. The other fpecies figured in this work, Plate 212, and our prefent plant, arethe only two yet known of this genus. They require a very light fandy loam, or peat foil, to makethem flouriih. The P. glabra does not grow more than three feet high and flowers the firft year fromcuttings. Our figure was taken at the Hammerfmith Nurfery. =- _- . i
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