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Excerpt from Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, 1839, Vol. 6
WE have pleasure in submitting to our readers a correct delineation of a plant which appears likely to engage, in the ensuing season, no inconsiderable portion of popular attention. To ensure a due estimation of its merits, we need not appeal to the uniform testimony of every writer who has hitherto noticed it, though, in this respect, few plants present stronger claims to consideration. We rest our recommendation on higher grounds, and at once direct the reader to the annexed plate; of which, however, we think it proper to observe, that the colour of the ower is considerably less brilliant than it is naturally, since it is found almost impossible successfully to imitate its transcendently intense and dazzling hue.
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