"The Crocus is well known as one of our earliest spring flowers, producing dense masses of richly colored…
"This is a drooping or creeping species, with light green, glossy leaves and large clusters of orange…
"This is a genus worthy of cultivation in all collections, as its lively flowers are produced in great…
"The colors white and shades of crimson. As a winter blooming plant for a conservatory or parlor window,…
"The flowers are large, of a most brilliant crimson color, and produced in the greatest profusion, if…
"In 1870, Saxafraga sarmentosa was introduced, being beautifully and more distinctly variegated with…
Also known as the cabbage tree. They are endemic to New Zealand and can grow up to 66 feet in height.…
"This is also a very well known flowering plant, of which there are many varieties - white, light and…
"D. Brasiliensis is exceedingly handsome for the center of a vase or stand, forming a beautiful object,…
A hanging basket filled with ferns. The handles of the basket are covered with German ivy.
A true lily that is native to Japan. The flower color is white with gold radial markings and orange…
"L. Brownii has been considered by some a very difficult species to grow, whereas the whole secret of…
Also known as Lilium longiflorum. They are native to Japan and Taiwan, and bears a number of trumpet-shaped,…
"One to three feet high; flowers erect, orange yellow, spotted black, well open and very beautiful.…
Also known as Convallaria majalis. It is native throughout the Northern Hemisphere in Asia and Europe.…
"An aquarium well filled and stocked with plants, fish, etc., is one of the finest ornaments one can…
"The hanging basket is filled with dried Everlasting Flowers and Grasses, in their natural colors. Some…
"These roots are such as subdivide in the earth in a manner similar to the divisions of the stem, and…
"This variety consists of numerous fibers proceeding from the neck of the plant, and may be seen in…
"When the fibers of roots become enlarged by the deposition of starch, they form this variety of root."—Darby,…
"When the root sinks perpendicularly into the earth, and tapers regularly from the base to the apex…
"The variety which is very large at the base, but tapers abruptly, as in the Turnip."—Darby, 1855
"Didymous roots are those which produce a tubercle each year, and when the tubercle of one year arrives…
"The Rhizoma or Rootstock grows in a nearly horizontal direction, emitting roots from its under side,…
"The Cormus is that variety which increases beneath the earth by development of buds in the axils of…
"The bulb is a leaf-bud inclosed in scales or concentric layers, and is found either at the base of…
"Fork-veined leaves are those in which the primary veins divide into two nearly equal secondary veins,…
"Parallel-veined leaves are those in which the veins proceed from their origin to their termination…
"It is said to be ovate when it has the outline of the longitudinal section of an egg."—Darby,…
"Lanceolate, when it is three or more times as long as it is broad, and rounded at the base, and tapering…
"Peltate, with the petiole inserted in the lamina, but not in the center of it."—Darby, 1855