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Title: The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Andrews, Henry Charles, fl. 1799-1828 Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835, printer Haworth, Adrian Hardy, 1768-1833 Kennedy, John, 1759-1842 Jackson, George, d. 1811 Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plants, Cultivated Botany Flowers
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... : To be had of J. White, Fleet-street, and all the booksellers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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n the Confervatory, or Green-houfe; and if encouraged in itsgrowth, by being planted in the border of the one; or kept in rich earth, in a large pot in the other,will attain the height of from 6 to 8 feet. The finelt fpecimen we believe, in England, of this plantis to be found in the elegant Confervatory of the Bight Honourable Lord B. Spencer, Woolbedding,SulTex. The flowers, which grow in clutters from the ends of the branches in May, have the flavourofJafmine; but are rather tranfitory. It is propagated but tlowly and with difficulty, as it does notperfect its feeds with us, and it is not to be increaled by laying: the only method is callings, whichfliould be taken whillt very young and tender from the plant, about April, and put from 6 to 8in a pot, fixed very tight, in ftifrift) loam ; they must remain under a hand-glafs on a lhady border tillAutumn, when they may be removed into the hot-houfe and plunged into the bark bed, whenthey will begin to grow the entiling fpring. . f 1,1
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. ,//■•/■/( /// f, / /,/, f _ PLATE CLII. GERANI IM S P AT H UL AT UM. Spatula-leaved Geranium. CLASS XVI, ORDER IV. of Suppi. sSst. Veg. 1781. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Threads united. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Monogyna. Stigmata quinque. Fruit, us rof-tratus, penta-coccus. One Pointal. Five summits. Fruit furnitiieu with long awns, five dry berries.See Geranium grandii-lorum, PI. XII. Vol. I. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Geranium foliis integerrimis, fpathulatis, gla-bris, obtufis, radicalibus; calycibus mono-phyllis; ftaminibus quinque fertilibus; ra-dice tuberofa. Geranium with quite entire leaves, fpatula-fhaped, fmooth, blunt, and growing fromthe root; cups one-leaved; five fertilechives; root tuberous. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement cut open, to fhew its hollow ftru&ure. 2. The Chives and Pointal natural fize. 3. The Chives lpread open, to fhew the number and fituation of the fertile ones, which are alternate. 4. The Pointal magnified. The greater number

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