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Excerpt from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower-Garden Displayed, 1810, Vol. 31: In Which the Most Ornamental Foreign Plants, Cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, Are Accurately Represented in Their Natural Colours
Our drawing was made from a plant in Mr. Uav's Botanic Garden, sloane-square. G.intended for it in the approaching edition'of Harms Know/is. Stem from two to five feet high; ?owers 1 - 14, large, of a bright red-lead colour with black-crimfon fomewhat raifed fpots. Hardy enough to thrive in the Open ground, and will foon become common, being rapidly propagated by the bulbs produced in the axils of the leaves, as well as by thofe that furround the mmher-bulb. Blooms freely about July and Augufi. Native of China and japan. Introduced 1nto Kev Gardens from the former country, by Mr. W. Kan, in 1804. Kaunas. Fays, that the bulbs are eaten by the japanefe. Louazrao mentions its being cultivated at Canton, and makes it a variety of pomponium.
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