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    The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed
    The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed
    The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed
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    The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed
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    William Curtis

    Julia H. Shannon, fondly known as Jupe and Grandma Jupe to relatives and friends, is a lifelong resident of the Saint Louis, Missouri, area. She has written numerous stories for children, including Scruffy, Scrappy Dog and The Knockout Punch, as well as two novels for adults, Hanna’s House and Gilda. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. William Curtis, illustrator, is an experienced artist whose masterful style has earned him numerous awards. He uses a variety of media, including watercolor, oil, and graphite. Having worked as an educator for a number of years, he especially enjoys doing illustrations for children’s books.

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      The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed - William Curtis

      Project Gutenberg's The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6, by William Curtis

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      Title: The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6

      Or, Flower-Garden Displayed

      Author: William Curtis

      Release Date: June 15, 2007 [EBook #21843]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, VOL. 6 ***

      Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file made using scans of public domain works at the

      University of Georgia.)

      THE

      Botanical Magazine;

      OR,

      Flower-Garden Displayed:

      IN WHICH

      The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours.

      TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

      Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnæus; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering:

      TOGETHER WITH

      THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE.

      A WORK

      Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.

      By WILLIAM CURTIS,

      Author of the Flora Londinensis.

      VOL. VI.

      LONDON:

      Printed by Couchman and Fry, Throgmorton-Street. For W. CURTIS, No 3, St. George's-Crescent, Black-Friars-Road; And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland.

      M DCC XCIII.

      CONTENTS

      [181]

      Colutea Frutescens. Scarlet Bladder Senna.

      Class and Order.

      Diadelphia Decandria.

      Generic Character.

      Cal. 5-fidus. Legumen inflatum, basi superiore dehiscens.

      Specific Character and Synonyms.

      COLUTEA frutescens fruticosa, foliolis ovato-oblongis. Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr, p. 668. Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 3. p. 56. Mill. Icon. 99.

      COLUTEA æthiopica, flore purpureo. Breyn. Cent. 70. t. 29.

      No181.

      Of the several species of Colutea cultivated in our garden the one here figured, is distinguished by the brilliancy of its' flowers, the largeness of its pods, and the downy appearance of the under side of its leaves.

      It appears from the Hortus Kewensis to have been cultivated by Mr. James Sutherland as long since as the year 1683 it was not however generally introduced to our gardens till the time of Miller, who figured it in his Icones, it was then understood to be an Æthiopian plant; Mr. Aiton since describes it as a native of the Cape also; of course, we find it more tender than most of its kindred, and hence it is usually regarded as a greenhouse plant; yet, as it is not destroyed by a small degree of frost, it will frequently, like the myrtle

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