Archive image from page 518 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 cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 VINUA VINES 1935 BB. Foliage dei'iduouii, or less evergreen. 3. & Kit. Herbaceous Periwinkle. Hardy trailing herb, wliicli generally loses its foliage in winter, sends up short flowering stems
Archive image from page 518 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 cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 VINUA VINES 1935 BB. Foliage dei'iduouii, or less evergreen. 3. & Kit. Herbaceous Periwinkle. Hardy trailing herb, wliicli generally loses its foliage in winter, sends up short flowering stems in spring, fol- lowed by .sterile creeping stems which root at the tips. The tls. are purpler than in the common Periwinkle, later, and the corolla-lobes are narrower: Ivs. elliptical or lanceolate, margin revolute, ciliate; petiole with 2 glands near the middle: calyx-lobes narrowly lanceo- late, ciliolate; corolla-lobes oblong-obovate, dimidiate. Eastern Eu., Asia Minor. 2002. 4:301. AA. Tender erect siibshrub {herb iV'.), with rosy or wJilte fls. prodiiced all sunttner. 4. rosea, Linn. Madagascar Periwinkle. Fig. 2(372. Tender, erect, everblooming plant, somewhat shrubby at the base, cosmopolitan in the tropics: Ivs. oblong, narrowed at base, veiny: petiole glandular at the base, fls. with a very small orifice, rosy purple or white, the latter with or without a reddish eye; calyx-lobes linear, corolla-lobes dimidiate-obovate, mucronulate. Gn. 36, p. 455; 43, p. 389. V. 13:49; 10:49. 248. 1:141. —This is commonly called the 'Madagascar Peri- winkle,' but V. rosea is probably not native to the Old World, while the only species of Vinca that is really na- tive to Madagascar, viz., V. latwea, is not in cultiva- tion. The plant is sometimes called '(.-ape Periwinkle ' and 'Old Maid.' The three main types should be known as T'. rosea, W rosea, var. alba, and V. rosea, var. oculata, the latter being a white flower with pink or red center. As a matter of fact,
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