The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Angophora

(from aggos, a vessel, and phero, to bear; in reference to the shape of the fruit). ORD. Myrtaceae. Australian evergreen greenhouse ornamental trees or shrubs. Flowers corymbose; calyx five or six-cleft. Leaves large, opposite. A mixture of leaf soil, peat, and sand suits them well. Ripened cuttings will root in sandy soil under a hand glass in a cool house, in a few weeks.

A. cordifolia (heart-leaved).* fl. yellowish, corymbose, large. May. l. sessile, ovate, cordate at the base, glabrous. h. 7ft. to 10ft. New Holland, 1789.

A. lanceolata (lanceolate-leaved).* fl. white, corymbose. May. l. petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. h. 4ft. to 6ft. New Holland, 1816.

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