This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...doors from June to October. Many are quite hardy, and invaluable for rockwork." In Grindon's Botany we read that the MesemIryanthemum tigrinum (often mis-called the Roseof-Jericho, and still more foolishly the "Resurrection "flower), are imported from the Cape of Good Hope as curiosities. When dry, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...doors from June to October. Many are quite hardy, and invaluable for rockwork." In Grindon's Botany we read that the MesemIryanthemum tigrinum (often mis-called the Roseof-Jericho, and still more foolishly the "Resurrection "flower), are imported from the Cape of Good Hope as curiosities. When dry, they resemble a round gray button, about an inch in diameter, but on being dipped in water, they expand into a beautiful star, the rays consisting of the carpels, which then discharge their small beach seeds. As the moisture evaporates, the button-form is resumed. CRASStrLACEiE--The stone-crop family. The Genus Sedum. It is remarked in Grindon's "Botany" that, sprinkled all over the world, the 300 known species of the stone-crop family are remarkable for growings on sun-scorched rocks and naked walls, on roofs and sandy plains, such as other plants could not endure for a day; and, though many are rooted in the earth, it is not that they require the soil as a source of nutriment, but simply as anchorage. They take their food almost entirely through the pores of the leaves--their delicate mouths invisible to the naked eye. Nothing is more extraordinary than to see the little Sedum acre sitting in golden epaulettes on the tops of mountain walls, exposed to the hottest rays of the noontide sun, and nourishing most when they come earliest and stay the longest. The red Orpine will live for months, suspended by a string, without being once supplied with water; indeed, it is said that it will even grow freely after being placed between papers and pressed for the herbarium. Loudon says that the word Sedum is taken from the Latin word sedere, to sit--these plants, growing on the bare rocks, look as if sitting upon it. The species...
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Add this copy of The Cactus and Other Tropical Succulents to cart. $15.42, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
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