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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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out the leaft injury, and continued in perfectionmany days. The magnificence of this fpecies of Protea, can be but poorly exprefled within the limited boundsof our publication; we have, neverthelefs, endeavoured to do it all the juflice within our grafp. Aconfiderable part of the luftre of the flower is loft, from the fmall portion of the leaves which could beintroduced; as the contrafted beauty of the fine broad fliining leaves, which form, as it were, a nidus,or around wood for the bloffbm, contribute, fo much, to heighten the beauty of the whole. The Protea cynaroides is a hardy greenhoufe plant, was introduced to Britain, in 1/92, byMeffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, from the Cape of Good Hope. May be increafed by cuttings,taken off the lower part of the plant; where they lhoot out in clufters to the length of an inch ormore, and muft be treated as has already been directed for Proteas in general. The plant, even at theCape, feldom grows higher than 18 inches, or two feet. ,7v:
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INDEX TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. III. Plate 145 Hillia longiflora 146 Pforalea aculeata 147 Gladiolus cufpidatus 148 Lachenalia quadricolor 149 Struthiola ciliata 150 Geranium praemorsum 151 Pittofporum coriaceum 152 Geranium fpathulatum 15 3 Viola pedata 154 Echium argenteum 155 Ixia polyilachia 156 Bankfia ericajfolia 157 Cordia Sebeftena J58 Geranium echinatum 1J9 Ixia capitata, far.Jio. alio, Jundo nigra 160 Ariftea major 161 Hermannia pulverata 162 Verbafcum ferrugineum 163 Amaryllis Fcthergillia . 164 Galaxia grandiflora l6e Echium glaucophyllum 166 Gladiolus abreviatus 167 Brunsfelfia undulata 168 Geranium pi&um 169 Crinum giganteum 170 Ixia Bulbocodium far. fl. fpeciofijjimo 171 Hypoxis linearis 172 Anemone palmata 173 Geranium rofeum 174 Antholyza tubulofa 175 Melaleuca ericsefolia 176 Crata?va Capparoides 177 Ixia punctata 178 Ferraria pavonia J 79 Amaryllis reticulata 180 Atragene auftriaca 181 Vaccinium virgatum 182 Malva divaricata 183 Gardenia tubiflora 184 Perg

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