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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 124 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PENTSTEMON , in See also:

BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, a genus of See also:

PLANTS

plants (nat. See also:

order See also:

SCROPHULARIACEAE

Scrophulariaceae), chiefly natives of See also:

North See also:

AMERICA

America, with showy open-tubular See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers. The pentstemon of the florist has, however, sprung from P. Hartwegii and P. Cobaea, and possibly some others. The plants endure See also:

ENGLISH

English winters unharmed in favoured situations. They are freely multiplied by cuttings, selected from the See also:

young See also:

side shoots, planted See also:

early in See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September, and kept in a See also:

close See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

FRAME

frame till rooted. They See also:

winter safely in cold frames, protected by mats or See also:

LITTER (through O. Fr. litere or litiere, mod. litiere from Med. Lat. lectaria, classical lectica, lectus, bed, couch)

litter during See also:

frost. They produce See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed freely, new kinds being obtained by that means. When See also:

SPECIAL

special varieties are not required true from cuttings, the simplest way to raise pentstemons is to sow seed in See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat (65° F.) early in See also:

FEBRUARY

February, afterwards pricking the seedlings out and hardening them off, so as to be ready for the open See also:

air by the end of May. Plants formerly known under the name of Chelone (e.g. C. barbata, C. campanulata) are now classed with the pentsterons.

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