"In July, transplant them upon a bed in an open situation, at about four
inches asunder; at the end of August transplant them again upon another
bed, at about ten inches asunder, and there let them remain till they
flower: shade them till they have taken root, and in very severe weather
in winter, cover the bed with mats over some hoops.
"The following summer they will flower, when you must mark such as you
like, make layers from, and pot them." _Ellis's Gardener's Pocket
Calendar._
The means of increasing these plants by layers and pipings, are known to
every Gardener.
Such as wish for more minute information concerning the culture,
properties, divisions, or varieties, of this flower, than the limits of
our Work will admit, may consult _Miller's Gard. Dict._ or the _Florists
Catalogues_.
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~Trillium Sessile. Sessile Trillium.~
_Class and Order._
~Hexandria Trigynia.~
_Generic Character._
_Cal._ 3-phyllus. _Cor._ 3-petala. _Bacca_ 3-locularis.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
TRILLIUM flore sessili erecto. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 349._
PARIS foliis ternatis, flore sessili erecto. _Gron. virg. 44._
SOLANUM triphyllum. _Pluk. alm. 352. t. 111. f. 6._ _Catesb. car.
t. 50._
[Illustration: 40]
Of this genus there are three species, all of which are natives of
North-America, and described by MILLER, in his _Gardener's
Dictionary_, where the genus is called _American Herb Paris_; but as the
_Paris_ and _Trillium_, though somewhat similar in the style of their
foliage, are very different in their parts of fructification, we have
thought it most expedient to anglicise _Trillium_, it being to the full
as easily pronounced as _Geranium_, and many other Latin names now
familiar to the English ear.
This species takes its' trivial name of _sessile_, from the flowers
having no foot-stalk, but sitting as it were immediately on the end of
the stalk.
The figure here exhibited was taken from a plant which flowered in my
garden last spring, from roots sent me the preceding autumn, by Mr.
ROBERT SQUIBB, Gardener, of Charleston, South-Carolina, who is
not only well versed in plants, but indefatigable in discovering and
collecting the more rare species of that country, and with which the
gardens of this are likely soon to be enriched.
It grows in shady situations, in a light soil, and requires the same
treatment as the _Dodecatheon_ and _round-leav'd Cyclamen_. We have not
yet had a fair opportunity of observing whether this species ripens its
seeds with us: though of as long standing in this country as the
_Dodecatheon_, it is far less common; hence one is led to conclude that
it is either not so readily propagated, or more easily destroyed.
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~Calceolaria pinnata. Pinnated Slipper-wort.~
_Class and Order._
~Diandria Monogynia.~
_Generic Character._
_Cor._ ringens inflata. _Caps._ 2-locularis, 2-valvis. _Cal._ 4-partitus
aequalis.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
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