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The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening Volume 6; A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists by John Garrett
The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening Volume 6; A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists
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Author: John Garrett
Number of Pages: 268 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781130962956
File Name: The.Illustrated.Dictionary.of.Gardening.Volume.6;.A.Practical.and.Scientific.Encyclopaedia.of.Horticulture.for.Gardeners.and.Botanists.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...genera, and upwards of 1200 species have been described, many of which are highly ornamental garden plants. Examples: alronifum. Anemone, Clematis. Delphinium, Pceonia, and Ranunculus. RANUNCULUS (a Latin name for a little frog applied by Pliny to these plants, the aquatic species growing where frogs abound). Buttercup; Crowfoot. Including Ceratocephalus and Ficaria. Ord. Ranunculacece. A large genus (about 160 species) of mostly hardy annual herbs (or at length often having perennial stems), dispersed over the whole globe, but most copious in temperato and frigid regions, particularly in the Northern hemisphere; within the tropics, a few only are found, and these on the tops of mountains. Flowers white, yellow, or red, terminal, solitary or paniculate, rarely sessile in the axils of the branchlets; sepals three to five, caducous; petals equal in number, or more (sometimes as many as fifteen), with a nectar-bearing scale at the base, conspicuous or rarely minute; stamens Ranunculus--continued, shorter than the sepals and petals, often numerous, very few in some few-flowered species; achenes compressed or sub-globose, smooth or variously striated, ribbed, wrinkled, or bristly. Leaves entire or dissected; thoso at the divisions of the stem often small. According to Hooker, sixteen species are included in the British Flora; some of these, although common weeds, are pretty objects when in flower, and hence are described below. Except where otherwise stated, all the species here mentioned are hardy. Nearly all aro of easy culture in mixed borders, or in rock gardens; they usually prefer rather moist situations and loamy soil. R. asiaticus has long been in cultivation. This species and its numerous varieties require special and very different treatment from any o...

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