The Garden; An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches Volume 38 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...leaves and red, wax-like, tubular flowers each about an inch in length. The flowers are borne very freely, and also last a long time in perfection. This Agapetes succeeds with the treatment given to the great number of Rhododendrons from the same region, viz., a soil composed of fibrous peat and sand, thorough drainage, and a good supply of water throughout the summer months. It can be increased from cuttings of half ripened shoots taken during the growing season and dibbled into pots of very sandy peat. If they are stood in a close propagating case in a structure at an intermediate house temperature they will strike root before winter, and may then either be potted off at once or in the spring.--H. P. Dimorphanthus mandscburicus.--The flowering of a goodly-sized specimen of this certainly rare tree in a secluded spot in the grounds at Holwood last autumn caused me to make a note for use later on regarding the procuring of a number of plants of it for using here and there over the estate. Truly, there is not much beauty about the tree itself, for it is but a big spiny stake, with no branches and but a tuft of Palm-like foliage at the top. The flowers are, however, both large and conspicuous, and impart to the tree an appearance that is as novel as it is interesting. The flowers are of a creamy hue, small, but produced in long umbellate racemes, and when fully developed, from their being arranged in long spikes, hang to one side, this being aided by their terminal and upright formation. Usually the stem of the Dimorphanthus is spiny, of irregular size throughout its I length, and with Horse Chestnut-like bark. The terminal bud from its large size, as if all the energy of the plant was developed or concentrated in the tip, imparts a curious...