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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Grislea

(named in honour of Gabriel Grisley, author of a work on the Botany of Portugal, who lived in the seventeenth century). ORD. Lythrarieae. A genus now limited to the one species described below, which is a very pretty stove evergreen shrub. It thrives in a compost of fibry and sandy peat and loam. Propagated by cuttings, obtained in spring from firm young shoots, and inserted in sandy soil, under a bell glass, in heat. G. secunda (side-flowering). fl. pale pink; stamens long, purple. l. on short petioles, puberulous on both surfaces. Branchlets glabrous. h. 4ft. to 6ft. Venezuela and New Grenada, 1820.

G. tomentosa. See Woodfordia tomentosa.

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