. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. food directly non-living organic matter or deriv from another living organism, and site. Fungi are very common, and range the large hard-shell Fungus upon logs and the puff- ball and toadstool in the rich earth to the delicate moulds that infest bread and other foods,
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. food directly non-living organic matter or deriv from another living organism, and site. Fungi are very common, and range the large hard-shell Fungus upon logs and the puff- ball and toadstool in the rich earth to the delicate moulds that infest bread and other foods, and the still more microscopic forms that produce fermentation, as yeast in dough and other species employed in mak- ing beer. Some of the toadstools are very richly tinted with red, yellow, l)rown and even blue, and a few are deadly poisonous, as the"death cup"an. FtjNKIA (Ludwig P. Funke, 173o-1807, and H. C. Funk, 1771-1839. German naturalists). LltiAcew. Dai- Lilt. Plantain Lily. Five or six Japanese perennial herbs, producing attractive clumps of foliage and inter- esting blossoms. Fls. in terminal racemes or spikes, white or blue ; perianth funnel form, 6-parted and more or less irregular, the lobes not widely spreading ; sta- mens 6, the filaments filiform, the anthers long-oblong and versatile : pod oblong and angled, many-seed^, splitting into 3 valves (Fig. 884); seeds flat and black, winged at the apex. Monogr. by Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. i: :3C6. See also, Mottet, 1897, p. 114. Funkias are hardy and of the easiest culture. Their dense stools or clumps of foliage are in place along walks or drives and in the angles against buildings. A continuous row along a walk gives a strong and pleas- ing character. Make the soil rich and deep. The clumps improve with age. The large-leaved kinds grow vigorously in moist, shady places. Of some varieties. the Ivs. are strikingly variegated. Bloom in summer. Foliage is killed by frost. Prop, by dividing the clumps; som
Size: 1159px × 2156px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjec, booksubjectgardening
