. 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. cocos BB. Eachis not ahmptly contracted. c. Leaflets flaccid. D. Form of Ifts. linear. E. Arrangement of Ifts. equidistant. WeddelUana, H. Wendl. Pig. 508. Stem 4-7 ft. high, l]4 in. indiam., densely covered with pers
. 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. cocos BB. Eachis not ahmptly contracted. c. Leaflets flaccid. D. Form of Ifts. linear. E. Arrangement of Ifts. equidistant. WeddelUana, H. Wendl. Pig. 508. Stem 4-7 ft. high, l]4 in. indiam., densely covered with persistent sheaths: Its. equally pectinate-pinnatisect, 3-Sii ft. long; petiole 8-20 in.: sheath coriaceous-flbrous, or tomen- tose, with slender brown hairs, at length evanescent: blade 2-3 ft.: segments about 50 on each side, widely spreading, the middle 5 in. long, 2 lines wide, siibequi- distant, glaucous beneath: rachis filiform at the apex, brown-scaly. Trop. Braz. R. H. 1879, p. 434. 22:220. 16:345. —The most important of small or- namental palms for the north. EE. Arrangement of Ifts. in groups of 2-4. plumosa, Hook. Stem 30-36 ft. high, 10-12 in. thick, ringed at intervals of a foot, clothed near the apex with remnants of the dead petioles; Ivs. erect-spreading, 12- 15 ft. long, recurving : petiole J^-K as long as the blade : segments linear acuminate, sparse, solitary or mostly in groups of 2-4, IHft. long, deflexed near the apex. Cent. Braz. 5180. —The chief avenue palm of the genus. A quick-grower, ultimately 50 ft. high in S. Fla. and Calif. cc. Leaflets rigid. butyricea, Linn. Stems very tall, naked : Ivs. pin- nate ; Ifts. simple ; spathe cylindrical-oblong, 4-6 ft. and perhaps confused with Scheelea bvtijrneea. Little known. D. Form of Ifts. sword-shaped. Romanzofli^na, Cham. Stems 30-40 ft. high, some- what fusiform above: Ivs. about half as long as the cau- dex, the withered ones deflexed, pendent, the upper spreading,
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