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My garden in spring (1914)

Bowles, Edward Augustus, 1865-1954 · London, T. C. & E. C. Jack · leaf 235

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Ionly knew of the white until recently, when I saw a goodstock of the mottled type in a Dutch nursery, so now Igrow both, but the white is the more attractive; thesquared shoulders of the type have disappeared, and thelong, tubular, white flower is very graceful. This cylin-drical aberration has… … Helicodiceros crinitus. (See p. 280.) April Showers wanted to show whether these flowers are fertile andwhether this is a cleistogamous line of development ofservice to the plant, or a useless variation. One of thebest of the family is F. pallidiflora, and if it has a fault itlies in the shortness…

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