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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Antholoma

(from anthos, a flower, and loma, a fringe; in allusion to the fringed or crenulated limb of the corolla). ORD. Tiliaceae. A fine greenhouse evergreen tree, thriving in a mixture of light loam and peat. Cuttings of ripened wood root in sand, under a hand glass.

A. montana (mountain).* fl. white; corolla ovately cylindrical, with a crenate, rather toothed margin; racemes axillary, some-what umbellate, reflexed. May. l. elliptical-oblong, leathery, stalked, scattered at the top of the branchlets. h. 20ft. New Caledonia, 1810.

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