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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Caldcluvia

(named after Alexander Caldeleugh, F.R.S. and F.L.S., who collected and sent to this country many plants from Chili). ORD. Saxifrageae. A greenhouse evergreen tree. Flowers disposed in terminal panicles. Leaves opposite, simple, serrate, glabrous; pedicels jointless; stipules twin, sub-falcate, toothed, caducous. C. paniculata thrives well in a mixture composed of peat and loam. Propagation may be effected by cuttings of the half-ripened shoots, which should be planted in sand, under a hand glass, and placed in a very gentle bottom heat.

C. paniculata (panicled). fl. white. June. chili, 1831.

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