. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . s, lJ^-2 in. long, 54in. wide: staminate catkins .solitary: cones almost spherical, 2-3 New Zeal.
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . s, lJ^-2 in. long, 54in. wide: staminate catkins .solitary: cones almost spherical, 2-3 New Zeal. 2:.583. Lambert, Pinus 2:44.—Cult, outdoors in Calif., but not very gum, much used in the manufacture of varnish,is the partly fossilized resin of A. auslralis. It is found5-6 ft. below the surface of the ground, in the northernpart of New Zeal., where there were vast forests ofthis tree in ages past. orientalis, Lambert. Fig. 137. Tree, 100 ft.: or alternate, entire, coriaceous, ghiueous, 2-4in. long, 1J-^ in. wide, sometimes a little falcate: staminatecatkins 2 in. long: cones globular or turbinate, solitary,peduncled, and axillary. E. Indies. Lambert, Pinus2:43. B. M. 53.)9.—Cialt. out(l()ors in Calif, and ingreenhouses elsewhere. Both this and the precedingintro. by Franceschi of Santa Barbara, Calif, (as Dam-mara orientalis.) j^ Taylor. AGAVE (Greek, agauos, admirable). decorative and economic plants from hot. VI. A good example of aquatic gardening, with water-lilies and Japanese ins. AGAVE AGAVE 231 American deserts, the most familiar of which is , the Century Plant, or American Aloe. Stem short or wanting: Ivs. mostly in a close rosette,usually stiff and more or less fleshy, persisting from yearto year, the margins mostly armed with teeth and theapex tipped with a usually pungent spine: fls. in spikes(Littsea) or panicles (Euagave); perianth 6-parted,more or less funnel-shaped; stamens 6, mos
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