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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Chorispora

(from choris, separate, and spora, a seed; in allusion to each seed being inclosed separately in the pod). ORD. Cruciferoe. A genus of about seven species of annual or biennial, branched, slender, smooth or pilose herbs, allied to Cakile. Racemes opposite the leaves, erect, elongated. Leaves either pinnatifid or entire. They are all of easy culture in common garden soil. Increased by seeds, sown in spring, outside.

C. Greigii (Greig's). fl. reddish-violet, about 3/4in. in diameter. l. long, narrow, pinnatifid, forming a rosette. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. Turkestan, 1879. Biennial. (R. G. 984.) C. tenella (delicate). fl. purple. July. l. smooth; upper ones lanceolate, toothed; lower ones pinnatifid. h. 4in. to 6in. Southern Russia, 1780. Annual.

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