Archive image from page 229 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer02bail Year: 1906 Japanese Crookiieck, Dunkard, and Sweet Potato Pump- kins (or Squashes) are C, moschata. The fruit stem (as shown in Figs. 596, 599, 604) is a distinguishing charac- teri
Archive image from page 229 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer02bail Year: 1906 Japanese Crookiieck, Dunkard, and Sweet Potato Pump- kins (or Squashes) are C, moschata. The fruit stem (as shown in Figs. 596, 599, 604) is a distinguishing charac- teristic of the ripe fruits. C. Pepo and C maxima, and C. maxima and C. moschata do not intercross. 6'. Pepo and C. moschata have been crossed, but it is doubtful if they intermix when left to themselves. In Europe, the word Gourd (or its equivalent in various languages) is used generically for Cucurbitas; but in this country it is restricted mostly to the small, hard-shelled forms of C. pepo (var. ovifera) and to Lagenaria vulgaris, L. H. B. CUDRANIA (derivationunknown). Vrticdceo'. Trees or shrubs, with deciduous, alternate, stipulate petioled Ivs.: fls. dioecious, in globular heads: collective fr. globu- lar. About 3 species, in S. and E. Asia and trop. Austr., of which only one is sometimes cultivated. It requires protection in the north, and is usually prop, by green- wood cuttings in summer under glass. tricuspidata, Bureau (Madura tricuspidAta, Carr.). Slinili. with slender, spiny branches: Ivs. elliptic-ovate, :u-uiMiii:itf. entire, sometimes 3-lobed at the apex, nearly glabrous, ]2-3 in. long: axillary, on short pe- duncles: fr. globose, about 1 in. across. China. R. H. 1864, p. 390.— Much resembling Madura, and of no special decorative value. Alfred Rehder. CULM. The stem of a grass. nor prominently enlarged next the fr.: fr. very various, but not light yellow nor warty nor crookneck-shaped, usuiiilv laU-riponing, the flesh orange and not stringy. rrnbably Ame
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