A Supplement to the Practical Treatise on the Culture of Florists' Flowers: Containing Additional Directions and Improved Modes of Cultivating the Auricula, Polyanthus, Tulip, Ranunculus, Heartsease, Carnation, Dahlia, &c., &c. : with Catalogues of the Newest and Most Esteemed Varieties of Each FlowerThe author, 1833 - 208 Seiten |
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Seite 72 - pointed out, and applied to the Bizarred Tulips. A Rose Tulip is marked, or variegated with rose, scarlet, crimson, or cherry colour, on a white ground; and the Feathered Rose is to be distinguished from the Flamed by the same rules, as described before; the Rose is very often both feathered and flamed. A Self or
Seite 72 - A Bizarre Tulip has a yellow ground, marked with purple or scarlet of different shades; it is called flamed, when a broad irregular stripe runs up the middle of the petals, with short abrupt projecting points, branching out on each side ; fine narrow lines, called arched and ribbed, often extend, also, from this broad stripe to the extremity of the leaves; the
Seite 152 - flower of first rate properties. Those that have the greatest number of petals are to be preferred, so that they have anthers producing farina. A similar method must be pursued, in order to obtain a superior flower of any other class ; the seed, generated in
Seite 72 - with breaks, or gaps, and sometimes close, and continued all round. A Bybloemen Tulip has a white ground, lined, marked, striped, or variegated with violet or purple, only of various shades; and whether feathered, or flamed, is distinguished by the same characters and marks which
Seite 110 - in the most satisfactory manner. This I know from experience, that very few of them, unless fond of the flower itself, seem to take any care of them, or treat them right, or bloom them well. The
Seite 152 - yellow-edged, white-edged, spotted, mottled, olive, &c.; and a number of the best semi-doubles of each corresponding class, producing anthers, as well as pericarps. Then, if a new dark flower is desired, fertilize
Seite 77 - beautifully marked with black or dark purple, and the feathering, uniform and elegant; it preserves its shape to the last, the outer leaves not sinking from the inner; in a word, it is considered the first flower of its class, and the best that has ever been produced in England;
Seite 109 - understand how to propagate them, they will all very soon perish. Gardeners, unaccustomed to flowers, are, in general, bad propagators; few of them have any right notion of piping; and
Seite 152 - Naxara, Variat, Quixos, or any good dark flower, with the pollen of a dark semi-double, or nearly double flower, containing the best properties as to colour, shape of petals, and general habit. If a superior flower, with a yellow ground, and dark edging, be desired, then fertilize Grand
Seite 136 - one barrow of rich yellow loam, or fresh dug earth, from some meadow, or pasture land, or common, with the turf, well rotten ; one barrow of leaf mould ; one ditto of well decomposed horse or frame dung ; one ditto of