. 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. 420 CUT-FLOWERS CUTTAGE broad ribbons, to be carried in the hand or over the arm. The flowers mostly used are roses and lilies-of- the-valley. Tastes differ'but little in the various cities, there being a similarity in all the first-class work. There is no essentially eastern or western flower. With the possibl
. 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. 420 CUT-FLOWERS CUTTAGE broad ribbons, to be carried in the hand or over the arm. The flowers mostly used are roses and lilies-of- the-valley. Tastes differ'but little in the various cities, there being a similarity in all the first-class work. There is no essentially eastern or western flower. With the possible exception of some varieties of carnations, the assortment of flowers will be found the same the country over. In the census of 1890 Cut-flowers were estimated to make more than one-half of the florist's business. One good book especially devoted to the business has been produced,âthe late M. A. Hunt's "How to Grow ; Robert Kift. CUTICLE, The outer surface of herbaceous parts of plants. It consists of the outer walls of the epidermal cells. These walls are much thickened and cutinized. Minute waxy rods upon the cuticularized surface of many fruits, such as the grape and plum, give to them their peculiar bloom. The Cuticle is nearly impervious to water. The preservation of fruits depends in large measure upon the retention of moisture by the Cuticle. Cacti and other desert plants have their epidermis re- markably cuticularized. -^^ y^^ Rowlee. CITTTAGE. The operation and practice of growing plants from severed parts. A cutting is the gardener's name for a piece of the stem, root, rootstock or leaf, which, if cut off and planted under suitable conditions, will form new roots and buds, reproducing the parent plant. This term is usually given to parts of the stem; a part or the whole of the leaf, when so used, is called a leaf-cutting; a piece of rootor rootstock is called a root-cutting. The scales of some bulbous plants, e. g., the lily, can also be used a
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