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Title: The Florist and horticultural journal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Horticulture Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : (s.n.)
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ysuccessor of the late editor. The Germantown Telegraph has a wide circulation and a well deserved re-putation as a family newspaper^ and is a good authority in farming matters.Major Freas, its editor, is a successful farmer. The Working Farmer, published monthly in New York, Prof. J. J. Mapes,editor. The fifth volume of this periodical has just commenced; it is devotedto the improvement of farms and farmers. The reputation of its editor is asufficient guarantee for its usefulness. We receive the Soil of the South, published at Columbus, Ga.—An excel-lent authority for the section in which it is published, and to the productionsof which it is devoted. Letters received from Oliver Taylor, R. Parnell, A. J. Fuller, Wis., R.G. Courtenay, Louisville; Jas. Stephenson. Messrs. Mcllvain & Orr of John st. N. Y., will receive any subscriptionsdue us there. E. J. Tryon, 98 Chambers st. will also act as agent. Thoseof our subscribers who have not yet paid, we respectfully request to do so.
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Ch. Sctoiesselle del. ^romc liih if ?. 3. Duval cfe Co. PMfl THE FLORIST AM) HOBTICULTUBAL JOURNAL. Vol. II.) Philadelphia, April, 1853. (No. 4. PHARBITIS LIMBATA. ETYM. 3>ae:3n, Colour, in allusion to the brilliant colours of the flower.Convolvulaceae—Convolvuleae. Chois. Pentandria-Monogynia. CHARACT. GENER.— Calyx 5 sepalus. Corolla campanulata ant campan-ulato-infundibuliformis Stylus 1; stigma capitato-granulatum. Ovarium 3 rari-us 4-loculare, loculis 2-speimis. 11 Herbce volubiles elongate speciosa?, perplurimae ornamenti gratia in hortiscultse, pleraeque americanse, retrorsum pilosse. Chois. Pharbitis, Choisy. Conv. or. p. 56 et in DC. prod. IX. p. 341. Convolvuli et Ipomece sp. Auct. Convolvuloides, Moench. Ornithosperma, Rafin. CHARACT. SPECIF.—u P. annua, caule retrorsum piloso, foliis cordatis in-tegris angulatis, trilobis-que pilosis-que lobis basi dilatatis acuminatis, pedunculissolitariis unifloris petiolis duplo brevioribus, sepalis basi hispidis apice pilosis

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