Excerpt from Edwards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower-Garden and Shrubbery, 1837, Vol. 23: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Plants and Shrubs, Cultivated in British Gardens; Accompanied by Their History, Best Method of Treatment in Cultivation, Propagation, &C Even as we know it, it is a stately, noble looking object, with its very large deep chesnut flowers; but if it can be brought to its full degree of vigour, we shall have little in its tribe that can vie with it in appearance. The plant that furnished the accompanying drawing grew in the hot house of Richard Harrison, Esq., Liverpool, in May 1836. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.