. 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. GYNANDROPSIS kidney-shaped or orbicular, compressed, with a wrinkled or tubercled coat. For culture, see C'leome. specibsa, DC. {Cledme speeidsa,}iBK.). Rather vel- vety towards the top: Ifts. 5-7, subserrulate, oblon
. 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. GYNANDROPSIS kidney-shaped or orbicular, compressed, with a wrinkled or tubercled coat. For culture, see C'leome. specibsa, DC. {Cledme speeidsa,}iBK.). Rather vel- vety towards the top: Ifts. 5-7, subserrulate, oblong, acuminate. Mex. "^^ ]M. 6YN&BIUM (Greek, woolly stigmas). Gramlneir. This genus was until 1897 held to include the Pampas Grass {Gi/neriu»i argenteum), which has long been con- sidered the finest of all tall, plumy grasses, as also the most important, commercially, of all ornamental grasses. Plumes of Pampas Grass are shipped in large quanti- ties from California to Europe, and are dyed various colors. In nature the plumes are silvery white, with varieties ranging from rose to carmine, violet and purple. They are often 2-3 ft. long. Pampas Grass is grown com- mercially only in California. The plumes are not col- lected in South America or shipped therefrom. The plumes of the male plants are much inferior to those of the females, and California growers exercise the greatest care to allow no male plants in the plantation. In this country the plumes are sold chiefly to persons of foreign birth. (SeeA'i'erlastiiigs.) As a border plant, the Pampas Grass is not perfectly hardy in the North, the best sub- stitute for it being Erianthus Savennce. Horticultur- ally. Pampas Grass is not to be compared with the Giant Reed (Ariindo Donax), as the two things represent two different types of beauty. The Arundo is valued for its bold habit, of which the tall, reedy stems are an impor- tant feature, while its plumes are wliolly incidental, be- ing smaller than those of the Pampas
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