The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . after thelateral growth has developed to a large size. TheBpike is peculiar in being cernuous and drooping, sothat if unsupported it would trail on the ground. A. densiHora flowered two years ago, the dried baseof the flower-spike being Btill on the plant. The newgrowth is now a rosette 2£ feet across, on a trunk18 inches high. He also noted A. ehloi-aoantha as showing the samgcharacter. March 13, 1897.] THE a i r> DEXERS CHBOKICL E. 1-67 -This also flowered two years has a trunk 1 foot high
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . after thelateral growth has developed to a large size. TheBpike is peculiar in being cernuous and drooping, sothat if unsupported it would trail on the ground. A. densiHora flowered two years ago, the dried baseof the flower-spike being Btill on the plant. The newgrowth is now a rosette 2£ feet across, on a trunk18 inches high. He also noted A. ehloi-aoantha as showing the samgcharacter. March 13, 1897.] THE a i r> DEXERS CHBOKICL E. 1-67 -This also flowered two years has a trunk 1 foot high, and one lateral rosette ayard across. A. polyacantka flowered last year (1895). Most ofthe old leaves are still on the plant, and it has now anew rosette of about twenty leaves, 1 foot long. A. SartorL—A figure of the Kew plant was pub-lished in the Botanical Magazine in 1877 (t. 6292),when it flowered for the first time. It then had astem 1 foot high, forked dichotomously. It bifur-cated again at the height of 4 feet, the stems beingnow 5 feet hhh. They show distinctly the scars of. Fig. 48.—AGAVE BOUCHEI. The right-hand figure shows the stem d, reduced \ ; latent leaf buds at K ; lateral leaf-bud developed at c3 of terminal flower-spike. The left-hand figure slunvs at a, sttiun ui .^t-iu ;b, terminal flower spike ; c, lateral leaf-bud.
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