The Floral Keepsake With Thirty Engravings Elegantly Colored From Nature
The Floral Keepsake With Thirty Engravings Elegantly Colored From Nature
John Keese
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No flower is so appropriate to plant in abund- ance in the shubberry as this, as it forms the best contrast with the autumnal tints of shrubs and trees In floral language, the China Aster is the emblem of VARIETY. BROMELIA ANANAS-PINE APPLE, CLASS, HEXANDRIA ; ORDER, MONOGYNIA. NATURAL ORDER, BROMELIACE^E. GEN. CHAR. Calyx, tripid. Petals, three, a honey bearing scale at the base of each petal. Berry, three celled. SPEC. CHAR. Leaves, fringed with spines, mucronate. Spike comose. This is the ty...pe of a natural order of American plants chiefly belonging to tropical regions. The leaves are sheathing, usually springing from the root. A perianth of three sepals and three petals, and six stamens, varying in point of insertion. Germen simple, with one style, and a three cleft stigma. Three celled and three valved fruit; the seeds with mealy albumen. Linnaeus named this genus after a countryman of his, Olaus Bromel, the author of several botanical works. It is a native of Brazil, Peru, and Mexico ; and is now universally diffused over the civilized world.
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