The standard of perfection for the properties of flowers and plants |
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The Standard of Perfection for the Properties of Flowers and Plants George Glenny No preview available - 2019 |
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auricula beautiful bells better bright broad bushy calyx Campanula carnation centre circle circular coarse compact complete Treatise corolla criterion crown Cultivation and Management CULTURE OF HARDY Dahlia dark defined dense diameter distinct divisions double flowers dwarf edges elastic exhibit flat florets florists FLOWERS AND PLANTS foliage footstalks free from notch Fuchsia Gardens Geranium GLENNY'S CULTURE green ground colour habit half a ball handsome hollow ball Horticultural Magazine inches indentations indenture individual blooms individual flowers inside kinds KING WILLIAM STREET LONDON lower petals Macassar Oil marking mimulus Moss-rose notch or serrature outline perfect perfectly Petunia Phlox picotees pink pips points Polyanthus price 18 price One Shilling PROPERTIES Published pure purple reflex rieties Rose round rows of petals save seed scarlet seedlings semi-double sepals shade shrubby single smooth spotted stand standard stem stiff stripe strong surface texture thick truss tube tulip varieties yellow
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Page 39 - ... be pure. 5. The two upper petals should be perfectly uniform, whether dark or light, or fringed, or blotched. The two petals immediately under them should be alike ; and the lower petal, as before observed, must have the same ground colour and character as the two above it ; and the pencilling or marking of the eye in the three lower petals must not break through to the edges.
Page 44 - If the flower have any marking besides the feathering at the edge, it should be a beam, or bold mark down the centre, but not to reach the bottom, or near the bottom of the cup ; the mark or beam must be similar in all the six petals.
Page 31 - Each row of petals should be smaller than the row immediately under it ; there should not be less than five or six rows of petals laid regularly, and the flower should rise and form a good bold centre or crown ; and in quantity should form half a ball.