Title:  The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed

Author:  William Curtis

Release Date:  March 14, 2006 [EBook #17979]

Language:  English

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  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 Linnaeus; 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.  IV.

Observe the rising Lily’s snowy grace,
Observe the various vegetable race;
They neither toil nor spin, but careless grow,
Yet see how warm they blush! how bright they glow! 
What regal vestments can with them compare! 
What king so shining, or what queen so fair. 

          
                                                                    Thomson.

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 xci.

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Lavatera trimestris.  Annual Lavatera.

Class and Order.

MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Generic Character.

Calyx duplex:  exterior 3-fidus. Arilli plurimi, monospermi.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lavatera trimestris caule scabro herbaceo, foliis glabris, pedunculis
      unifloris, fructibus orbiculo tectis. Linn.  Sp.  Pl. 974. Hort. 
      Kew. v. 2. p. 452.