Archive image from page 272 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer01bail1 Year: 1900 CAPE JESSAMINE. Gardenia, See CAPE PONDWEED. See Aponogeton. CAPER. See Capparis. For Caper-spurge,see Euphor- bia Latliyrus. CAPPARIS (Greek, caper). Caper-bush, or Caper Tree. Capparidiieem. Capers are pickl
Archive image from page 272 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer01bail1 Year: 1900 CAPE JESSAMINE. Gardenia, See CAPE PONDWEED. See Aponogeton. CAPER. See Capparis. For Caper-spurge,see Euphor- bia Latliyrus. CAPPARIS (Greek, caper). Caper-bush, or Caper Tree. Capparidiieem. Capers are pickles made by preserving the flower buds of C. spinosa, a straggling shrub which grows out of old walls, rocks, and rubbish in Mediterranean regions and India. Also rarely cult, as a greenhouse flowering shrub. The genus is large and polymorphic, and none of its relatives are familiar north. Prop, by cuttings in green- houses, and by seeds south. spindsa, Linn. Spiny shrub, 3 ft. high : lvs. roundish or ovate, deciduous : fls. borne singly, alternately, and fading before noon; sepals 4; petals 4, oblong, clawed,wavy,white, IHin. long: stamens 40-50: filaments purple above, per- haps the chief beauty of the plant. 291.—What seems to be the long style with a short, un- opened stigma, is really the elon- 352. Capriola Dactylon. Nat. size. Pd peduncle or torus topped by the pistil, which has no style and a minute stigma. W. M. CAPRIFOLIUM. See Lonicera. 16 CAFRtOLA (the wild goat, which feeds upon this grass). Graminem. Low, creeping perennials, with short, flat leaves and slender spikes, which spread out at the apex into finger-like branches. Spikelets 1-fld., awnless, sessile, in two rows along one side of a slender, continuous axis. Glumes 3, the first 2 narrow, keeled, usually acute, empty; the third or floral glume broader and usually a little longer than the empty ones. Species 4. One distributed throughout the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world. Ddctylon,
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