Books behind pictures

JASMINE s. (Ar. iasmin). Bot. genus in the family Jasmineae which includes some forty species of climbing shrubs that produce fragrant flowers: Spanish jasmine.
— Flowers of this plant: double jasmine …Read more »

GENTIAN s. (lat. gentiana; after Gentius, king of Illyria who first made known the medicinal properties of this plant, in the second century BC). Bot. genus in the family Gentianaceae, which includes a large number of species of perennials plants, most of them indigenous.
The Great Yellow Gentian (gentiana lutea), common …Read more »

GYNERIUM s. (greek gune, pistil; erion, wool; woolly pistil) Bot. Genus of arundinaceae⁽¹⁾ in the family gramineae, whose main species is the pampas grass (gynerium argenteum⁽²⁾) or Uruguayan pampas grass, a big herbaceous perennial plant native to the plains of South America: This plant flowers at the end of summer or at the beginning of fall and produces a lot of stems, sometimes as many as 40 or 50, which can be from …Read more »

GORDONIA s. (After Gordon, the name of a famous Scottish family). Bot. genus of trees and shrubs of cammalliaceae family, which includes …Read more »

GINSENG s. Bot. Shrub, genus aralia, which grows in Tartary and Canada, and whose root, called the same name, is invigorating and stimulating: experience has not confirmed in Europe the wonderful properties with which …Read more »

GERANIUM s. (gr. geranos, crane). Bot. genus of geraniaceae, which includes approximately 70 species of herbaceous plants, cultivated for the most part in pleasure gardens, and remarkable by the shape of the seed-head, which looks like the bill of a crane.
- The name geranium is commonly attributed to plants of the genus pelargonium.
- The main French species are: the hedgerow cranesbill (geranium Pyrenaicum), with purple or light crimson flowers; the shining geranium (geranium lucidum), glabrous, with pink flowers; the round-leaved cranesbill (geranium rotundifolia), with a pubescent calyx; the bloody cranesbill (geranium sanguineum), one of the most beautiful …Read more »

HIBISCUS s. (gr. marshmallow). bot. genus of Malvaceae, which includes approximately 150 species of herbs, shrubs and even trees, particularly widespread in tropical areas. The chinese hibiscus (hibiscus rosa sinensis) is a shrub 6.6 to 9.8 feet (2 to 3 m) high which produced several varieties, bearing variously coloured double flowers. The swamp hibiscus, (hibiscus moscheutos), called swamp rose mallow in North America, is often very abundant in the brackish swamps and along the rivers of eastern United States. Its height can reach 4.26 to 7.70 feet (1.30 to 2.35 m), it has many pink (seldom white) flowers, with a diameter of 4 to 4.72 inches (10 to 12 cm). It is one of the most remarkable flowers of middle summer. The garden hibiscus (hibiscus Syriacus), is an enormous shrub with crimson flowers, introduced into our gardens more than two centuries ago. In garden supply and nursery catalogues, this hibiscus is known under the name of althæa frutex; it is also called rose of sharon: it flowers …Read more »