. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. TOLMIEA and with the same style of beauty. It is a perennial herb 1-2 ft. high, with loose racemes of small greenish or purplish flowers. The species seems to have been cult, abroad, and twenty years ago it was offere
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. TOLMIEA and with the same style of beauty. It is a perennial herb 1-2 ft. high, with loose racemes of small greenish or purplish flowers. The species seems to have been cult, abroad, and twenty years ago it was offered in the eastern U. S. for western collectors. It is probably hardy and doubtless requires some shade. Generic characters : calyx funnelform, gibbous at base, 5-lobed, the tube in age longitudinally splitting down one side ; petals 5, threadlike, inserted in the sinuses of the calyx, recurved, persistent; stamens 3: ovary 1-loculed, with 2-parietaI placenta?. This plant has been described under Tiarella and Hetichera, which it resembles in foliage and inflorescence. It seems to be the only plant of the Saxifrage tribe that has 3 sta- mens. Menziesii, Torr. & Gray. Perennial herb, 1-2 ft. high, with slender creeping rootstocks and some summer runners: Ivs. round-cordate, more or less lobed and crenately toothed, slender-stalked, all alternate, those of the stem 2-4 in number: raceme %-lH ft. long: fls. and capsule nearly % in. long, greenish or tinged pur- ple. Forests of Mendocino Co., Calif., to Puget Sound. — Propagates naturally by adventitious buds, produced at the apex of the petioles of the radical lvs. and root- ing when these fall to the ground. w M TOMATO (Plate XLII). The Tomato is Lycopersi- cum eseulenium (which see), one of the solanum or nightshade family and closely allied to the potato. In fact, the potato and Tomato can be grafted on each other with ease, although they will not cross. The graft pro- duces no practical results, however (see Bull. 61, Cor-
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