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Title: The English flower garden and home grounds : design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs and trees for the open-air garden and their culture
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935
Subjects: Flower gardening Plants, Ornamental Cottage gardening Gardens
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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oloured plate of thisbeautiful Japanese species was publishedin The. Garden in December 1883, underthe name of M. parviflora ; at that timeit had not flowered in British gardens.It is hardy, has large creamy-whitefragrant flowers with petals of great sub-stance and deep red filaments, which addmaterially to the beauty of the blossoms. MALAXIS.—Terrestrial Orchids, ofbotanical interest mainly, and fitted forthe bog garden. MALCOLMIA (Virginian Stock). —The old M. maritima is a charming dwarfhardy annual, and grows in any soil.The varieties are—the white (alba), albanana, a dwarfer white than the other, andCrimson King (kermesina), a dwarf deepred sort, and these are all worthy ofculture. The Virginian Stock, like manyother annuals, does not show its fullbeauty from spring-sown seedlings, andwhere it sows itself in the gravel it isoften handsome. Being easily raised itis a good surfacing plant in the spring orearly summer garden, bolder flowersstanding up from its pretty sheets of
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Magnolia stellata

The true M. parviflora is probably not incultivation in Britain. –N.

Magnolia acuminata, N. Amer.; Bailloni, Cambodia; Campbelli, Himalayas; compressa, Japan; cordata, N. Amer.; dealbata, Mexico; Duperreana, Cambodia; Figo, China; Fraseri, N. Amer.; glauca, N. Amer.; globosa, Himalayas; grandiflora, N.Amer.; Griffithii, Himalayas; hypoleuca, Japan; inodora, China; insignis, E. Indies; kobus, Japan; macrophylla, N. Amer.; mutabilis; obovata, Japan; parviflora, pterocarpa, Himalaya; portoricensis, Porto Rico; parvifolia, Japan; pumila, Java, China; punduana, Himalayas; salicifolia, Japan; Schiedeana, Mexico; stellata, Japan; Umbrella, N.Amer.; Vrieseana, Celebes; Yulan, China. Note About Images