| John Claudius Loudon - Agriculture - 1826 - 502 pages
...of ornamental plants, is there a genus that he could make choice of at all to be compared to Erica ? Perpetually green, perpetually in flower, of all colours, of all sizes, and of many shapes ! Mr. Bowie, who is now at Kew, intends to return very shortly to the Cape of Good Hope, and resume... | |
| Agriculture - 1828 - 510 pages
...of ornamental plants, is there a genus that he could make choice of at all to be compared to Erica? Perpetually green, perpetually in flower, of all colours, of all sizes, and of many shapes ! As a fit companion to Mr. Bowie's communication, and a standing testimony in favour of our own opinion... | |
| James Forbes - Plants, Cultivated - 1833 - 568 pages
...respecting which the able conductor of the " Gardener's Magazine" observes, vol. 1. p. 336, " Of what other genus can it be said, that every species, without...supposition that various species of Ericeœ are much more diificult in management than other Cape plants, natives of the same climate. They certainly require... | |
| Charles McIntosh - 1839 - 994 pages
...of ornamental plants, is there a genus he could make choice of, at all to be compared to Ericete ? perpetually green, perpetually in flower, of all colours, of all sizes, and of many shapes.'.' In this family _ alone, about four hundred and fifty species, exclusive of varieties, are in this country,... | |
| Gardening - 1849 - 364 pages
...of ornamental plants, is there a genus that he could make choice of ut all to bo compared to erica? Perpetually green, perpetually in flower, of all colours, of all sizes, and of many shapes." May THE COTTAGE GARDENER, therefore, without at first intending it, be the means of extending the cultivation... | |
| Horticulture - 1856 - 462 pages
...TREATMENT OF CAPE HEATHS. BY ASLATOB FLOBUM. IT has been said that this interesting tribe of plants is " perpetually green, perpetually in flower — of all colours, of all sizes, and of many and varied forms ;" and I am of opinion, Mr. Editor, that few will be found to controvert the assertion,... | |
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