. 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. cea. Petrea volubilis, or thePurple Wreath, is one of the rarest, most distinct andbeautiful of tender climbers. The flower is like a 5-pointedstar of lilac with a good-sized violet in the middle. SeeFig. 1726, which indicates the graceful raceme 7-8 in,long, containing perhaps two
. 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. cea. Petrea volubilis, or thePurple Wreath, is one of the rarest, most distinct andbeautiful of tender climbers. The flower is like a 5-pointedstar of lilac with a good-sized violet in the middle. SeeFig. 1726, which indicates the graceful raceme 7-8 in,long, containing perhaps two dozen flowers. The flowersbegin to open at the base of the raceme and the showy5-pointed star is the calyx, whose sepals are coloredlike petals. The calyx spreads open while the corollais still a round bud in the middle, and it remains afterthe corolla has fallen, so that the vine, at first glance,seems to bear two kinds of flowers. The blooms appearin March and April. It should be in every greenhousecollection, although it is of very irregular growth. Itdoes not bloom freely in small plants; it probably hasother drawbacks, for it lias always been a rare plant inEurope, though often enthusiastically commended. The. nal racemes; calyx-lobes colored during anthesis butoften becoming green in fr.; corolla usually a littlemore intensely colored; limb 5-cut, oblique; stamens4, didynamous: ovary imperfectly 2-locuied; locules 1-ovuled. voliibilis, Linn. Purple Wreath. Fig. 1726. in. long, short-stalked, ovate, elliptic or oblong, acu-minate or obtuse, entire or wavy. Cuba to Brazil. 3:108. Gn. 12:82. G. W. Oliver and W. M. PE-TSAI or Chinese Cabbage. Brassica Pe-Tsai. PETTfiRIA (after Franz Petter, a Dalmatian botan-ist; died 1853). Legnminbsw. Only one species, verysimilar in habit to Laburnum, but with the yellow upright diiise , on leafy is but ranly cultivated, since it is less showy inbloom than Laburuum or many spec
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