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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Chamaelaucium

(from chamaileuke, a dwarf white Poplar, because its healthy stems are miniatures of that tree; this meaning is not very clear). ORD. Myrtaceae. A very oruamental little reenhouse evergreen shrub. Flowers, white, axillary, subtended by two concave bracteoles, which fall off in a calyptra from the young bud. Leaves opposite, crowded, linear, triquetrous. For culture and propagation, see Calythrix.

C. ciliatum (hair-fringed). fl., tube of calyx striated, glabrous, with the lobes roundish and ciliated. May. h. 2ft. West Australia, 1825.

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