. 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. 1346 PINGUICULA PINUS from its color, lies iu its extraordinarily long spur, which attains 2 in., while the 5-lobed limb reaches an equal length. These plants are scarcely known in America outside of botanic gardens. F. W. Burbidge has given a detailed account of his success with P. caitdata in Gn. 22, p. .-i09
. 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. 1346 PINGUICULA PINUS from its color, lies iu its extraordinarily long spur, which attains 2 in., while the 5-lobed limb reaches an equal length. These plants are scarcely known in America outside of botanic gardens. F. W. Burbidge has given a detailed account of his success with P. caitdata in Gn. 22, p. .-i09: The spring and summer foli- age are scarcely recognizable as belonging to the same plant. In early spring the Ivs. are numerous, small, short, thick and pointed, forming a dense rosette like an Echeveria; in midsummer the Ivs. are large, thin, obovate and las. The plant blooms freely in both stages, but produces the largest fls. later. In the fall the foliage again becomes a bulb-like mass of fleshy Ivs., and so rests all winter. Burbidge found that the plants can be readily propagated by these fleshy Ivs., each one producing a new plant, as in the case of the bulb scales of certain common lilies. These leaf cuttings were placed by Burbidge in the live sphagnum of orchid baskets. Young plants were potted in 2>-2-in. pots of live sphagnum, using small crocks only. These small pots may then be phmged in small shallow orchid pans to prevent extremes of moisture and hung up iu the cool end of a Cattleya house. Biirbidge has also grown P. hirtiflora in pans of sphagnum standing in a saucer of water and treated to the hottest sunshine. The fls. are said to last 8 or 9 weeks. Pinguicula belongs to the same family with Utric- ularia, a group composed largely of aquatic plants which capture minute creatures in little bladders that are developed on the thread-like Ivs. Pinguicula differs in the more terrestrial habit, the 4-5-parted calyx, spreading position of the posterior lip of
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