. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. petalous corolla; and when the filaments of stamens are united. Column, a term more particular
. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. petalous corolla; and when the filaments of stamens are united. Column, a term more particularly used to denote the united sta- mens and pistils in the Orchid family (p. 890). In fig. 32 st represents the stig- matio surface in a hollow on to which the pollinia (one of which is shown at p) must be placed to produce seeds. At a is shown the covering or lid over the poUinia. Comose, furnished with hairs at the end, as some seeds like those of the Composite order. Compound, formed of many similar parts, as the leaves of Thalictrums, Aquilegias, Horse Chestnut, Acacia &c. Compressed, flattened laterally. Conical, narrowing to a point from a broad circular base. Connate, when two similar parts are slightly connected round the stem, as the leaves of some Loni- ceras (fig. 33). Connective, the rib or part of the filament between the anther- cells, often produced, asjn Paris quadrifolia (fig. 9, c). Contorted, in sestivation, when one edge of a petal or sepal is covered and the other tree or exposed ; twisted. Convolute, in sestivation or vernation, when one part is rolled up within another lengthwise. Cordate, with two rounded lobes at the base, heart-shaped (fig. 34). Coriaceous, leathery, FIG. 33.— Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weathers, John, 1867-1928. London; Ne
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