Excerpt from Cistine? the Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose: Illustrated by Coloured Figures Descriptions of All the Distinct Species, and the Most Prominent Varieties, That Could Be at Present Procured in the Gardens of Great Britain; With the Best Directions for Their Cultivation and Propagation
The present Volume contains all the figures of the different species, and the most prominent varieties, that the Author has at present been able to procure: he has, therefore, brought the work to a conclusion; which he believes will be more agreeable to the greater part of his Subscribers, than to keep it open for a length of time, to admit others occasionally, as they may be newly introduced to the gardens, or as the old species might be sometimes found in obscure collections, where they are little expected to be.
A great many interesting species that were plentiful in the nursery collections some years back, are not now to be met with, many of them being sufficiently hardy to endure a favourable Winter without protection, but to be destroyed by a severe one, when the least covering would preserve them; the correct names of them were also so little known, and one substituted for another so frequently, that caused less attention to be paid to them than they deserved, which we hope will not be the case in future, as a very little protection is sufficient for the whole of them, and nothing produces a more brilliant effect, than a collection of them planted in rock-work, or even grown in small pots, and placed together in a clump, where the different colours may all be intermixed, or kept separate, according to the taste or fancy of the possessor.
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