Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, 1851, Vol. 30
We are happy in being able to state that there is a growing and healthy taste for plants and ?owers. Not only is this apparent in the increased number of greenhouses, which are becoming necessary appendages to every good garden, but in the far superior arrangement and decoration of the out-door department, and pleasure grounds, in summer. The grand improving feature has been the introduction of what are very properly termed bedding out, or summer-blooming plants. These are now raised in large quantities. By the leading nurserymen, and sold at such reasonable prices, that they are within the means of everybody who has a spot of ground; and hundreds are now planted where, a few years ago, not one was to be found. The effect of masses of verbenas, heliotropes, scarlet geraniums, salvias, &c., is so striking as to attract the attention of even those who ordinarily would give no heed to the scattered objects which usually fill up the garden and we think we can date the origin of a real love of ?owers to the impression which a brilliant mass of verbenas or salvias has made upon the beholder.
The most noted articles in our last volume are those on the Propagation of Plants by Cuttings, (p. By Mr. Saun ders; the Culture of the Camellia, (p. By Mr. Errington the Cultivation of the Cyclamen, (p. And particularly the Cultivation of American Plants, (p. By Messrs. Standish dz. Noble; and the Culture of Tropaeolums, (p. By Mr. Saunders. Many new verbenas and phloxes have been fully described, (pp. 172, and also several other new and rare plants. Our Floricultural Notices contain an account of most of the principal new plants introduced into the gardens of England and the Continent.
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