. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 126 BALSAM fls. It has varied immensely ia the doubling, size aud color of its fls. and in the stature of the plant. It was known to Gerarde in 1596. The plant has lanceolate, toothed Its., the lower ones being mostly in pairs. The fls. are clustered in the axils of the Ivs., on very short. 4 (lowered tsalsam.
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 126 BALSAM fls. It has varied immensely ia the doubling, size aud color of its fls. and in the stature of the plant. It was known to Gerarde in 1596. The plant has lanceolate, toothed Its., the lower ones being mostly in pairs. The fls. are clustered in the axils of the Ivs., on very short. 4 (lowered tsalsam. stalks ; sepals* and petals similarly colored and not easily distinguished, one of the sepals (of which there seem to be 3) long-spurred ; petals apparently 3, but two of them probably represent two united petals, thus making 5 ; stamens 5. The pod, shown in Figs. 179 and 180, is explosive. It has 5 carpels and very thin partitions, and seeds borne on axile placentae. When the capsules are ripe, a pinch or concussion will cause the valves to separate and contract, the seeds being thrown with considerable force. The full-double Balsams are known as the Camellia- flowered varieties (Fig. 181). In well selected stock, the greater part of the flowers from any batch of seedlings should come very double. The colors range from white to dark blood-red, yellowish and spotted. Balsams are of very easy culture. They are tender, and should be started in thumb-pots or boxes indoors, or in the when danger of fn and germinate qui. loam, and must and pinching-iii li. plants dwarf and . â i. fluwer-buds, especiall established. Better : few main branches are allowed t and weak ones beino: pinfh(>d fi suits The seeds are large, iits prefer a rich, sandy I lure. Transplanting, ^. tend to make the to remove the first -nts are not thoroughly obtained when only a > grow, all the secondary it. The lower Ivs. may -.)K 4 S^" , 182. The garden Balsam. be removed if they ob
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