The Floral Magazine, Vol. 10 PDF Download

Author: H. Honywood Dombrain
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528564458
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Excerpt from The Floral Magazine, Vol. 10: Comprising Figures and Descriptions of Popular Garden Flowers It is now eight years since the horticultural world was surprised and delighted by the first sight of the magnificent Lilz'um Auratzmz, then for the first time exhibited. In the description given of it, it was described as one flowered, but in Mr. Fortune's notes, published in the Floral Magazine, it was stated to produce four or five flowers on the one stem. Since then it has been introduced by tens of thousands, and we have seen plants exhibited with 190 blooms on them, some single stems producing thirty or forty flowers; very great variety of colouring has also been manifested, of which, even at the early period alluded to, we had already indications, the plants from which the figures were taken for the Botanical and Floral Magazine, being of different shades of colour. Amongst the most frequent exhibitors of this beautiful lily has been Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, and amongst his plants have been some varieties of very great beauty of marking; two of these form the subjects of our plate. Beauty (fig. 1) is a. Distinct variety, with a rich golden yellow band in the centre of each petal, the whole of the flower being thickly dotted over with rich claret-coloured spots. Pictum (fig. 2) is a still more distinct variety, having a golden yellow bar bordered with crimson, and very thickly covered with rich crimson spots. Mr. Bull has also exhibited one pure white, and in fact the varieties seem endless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.