Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery Volume 3 baixar o livro de graça

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. 1840 Excerpt: ...was scarcely three inches high; this chef (Teeuvre of gardening was grown in a little lacquered box of three tiers, similar to those filled with drugs, which the Japanese carry in their belts. In the upper tier was this Mume, in the second row a little Spruce fir, and in the lowest a Bamboo, scarcely an inch and a half high." Benthamia japonica, a new species, smaller in all its parts than the old species, and inhabiting the highest mountains of Japan. Stachyurus pr cox, a shrub referred by Professor Zuccarini to Pittosporacea;, cultivated by the Japanese for its copious and beautiful early tails of whitish flowers. Coryhpsis spicata and pauciflora, hazel-like bushes, belonging to Hamamelaceae. Boymia rut carpa, a powerful stimulant purgative and sudorific medicine. Aralia edulis, a species with roots having an agreeable aromatic and bitter taste, eaten in the winter like Scorzonera. Schizophragma and Platycrater, two new genera, related to Hydrangea, and with the same habit as that genus. Diervilla hortensis, grandiflora, floribunda, and versicolor, Four most beautiful shrubs, with trumpet-shaped rose-coloured or white flowers, and the habit of upright Honeysuckles. Abelia serrata, a white-flowered bush, belonging to the same natural order as the last. Viburnum plicatum and tomentosum, two plants resembling our common Gueldres Rose. The last plant as yet figured is the Trochodendron aralioides, an evergreen shrub, from damp shady places in the south of Japan, where it is called Jama-Kuruma, or Mountain-wheel, because of the verticillate arrangement of its leaves and numerous stamens; it appears to be similar in habit to our tree Ivy. 1. HOYA coriacea. Botanical Register, 1839. t. 18. I find that this very rare plant is the Cyrtoceras reflexu...