. 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. Gardening. VERMONT Y O R K N. 2656. Outl oe grown, melons, okr Special eroi tablf cult to srow rosps and lilies, or even violets and carna- tions, at a profit. The Vermont Horticultural Society was organized December 3, 1896. It is, therefore, a young, though an active and useful society. p^ ^^ Waugh. VERNdNIA (after Wm.
. 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. Gardening. VERMONT Y O R K N. 2656. Outl oe grown, melons, okr Special eroi tablf cult to srow rosps and lilies, or even violets and carna- tions, at a profit. The Vermont Horticultural Society was organized December 3, 1896. It is, therefore, a young, though an active and useful society. p^ ^^ Waugh. VERNdNIA (after Wm. Vernon, an English botanist who traveled in North America). Compdsitte. Ieon- WEED. A genus of nearly 500 species of perennial herbs or rarely shrubs, with alternate, pinnately veined leaves and usually purple or rose flowers borne in the follow- ing species in terminal cymes. The genus is widely scattered about the world, but is possibly most plentiful in South America. The following species are native of the United States, and are hardy perennial herbs of at- tractive appearance, with rather large heads of purple flowers in terminal clusters in late summer or early fall. Heads not glomerate, several- tomany-tld.: involucre of dry or partly herbaceous, much-imbricated bracts: corolla regularly 5-cleft into narrow lobes; akenes â 10-costate, with a truncate and a cartilaginous, callous pappus double (at least in can species). Vernonias are y culture in any good, rich . being easily propagated by I. ffeads 50-70-flowered. ., DC. Stem &-10 ft. high: Ivs. linear-lanceolate, 4-12 in. long, alternate-acuminate: peduncles not branched: involucre green, the filiform tips often reddish. Plains, Mo., Kan. to Texas. July-Sept. B. B. 3:302. AA. Heads 15-40-fW. B. Lvs. narrowly linear. c. Plant about 1 ft. high. Lindheimeri, Gray & Engelm. Stem excessively leafy up to the in- florescence: lvs. l!^-3 in. long by 1-2 lines wide, with revolute mar- in a corvrabiform cvrae. Rocky hill
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