. 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. ; divisions entire, broad, ovate-lanceo-hite: tls. paniculate: bracts small. Brazil; extensively(rrown in Ceylon and India. —Its juice gives the Ceararubber. utilissima, Pohl. Cassava, orManioo Plant. Bitter Cas-sava. Figs. 1308-09. RootsHeshy, cylindrical, sometimesweiiihingas much
. 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. ; divisions entire, broad, ovate-lanceo-hite: tls. paniculate: bracts small. Brazil; extensively(rrown in Ceylon and India. —Its juice gives the Ceararubber. utilissima, Pohl. Cassava, orManioo Plant. Bitter Cas-sava. Figs. 1308-09. RootsHeshy, cylindrical, sometimesweiiihingas much as 30 pounds,and 3 ft. long, very poisonous:stems knotty, about 3 ft. high:lvs. long petioled, not peltate,deeply 3-7-lobed; lobes lanceo-late,entire : bracts small, entire:calyx glabrous outside, puberu-lent within, yellowish, 5-parted:filaments glabrous ; anthersshort: capsule and ovary dis-tinctly wing-angled. July. Bra-zil. ex-tensively in the tropics, wherethe Cassava made from theroots is a staple food. Tapiocais made from the root-starch bydrying it in pellets on heatedplates. The poisonous juice ispressed out in preparation orrendered harmless by , var. Aipl, , Poh\). SweetCassava. Closely related tothe last, but the root more red- MANURE 981. descending root. 1367. Multiple tips of £Mangfrove root-branch. dish colored and non-poisonous: anthers elongated:capsule only angular above, not winged. the last, but not so extensively. J. B. S. Norton. The cultivation of Cassava is of the simplest descrip-tion in the West Indies. A piece of the stem, 2 or 3feet long, is planted in somewhat sandy ground and leftto its fate, with occasional hoeing of weeds. In suital)lesoils in the driest parts of Jamaica, it produces enor-mous crops with little or no attention. Ceara Rubber has not been cultivated in the WestIndies to any extent, but it is like Cassava in its capa- bility of growing in dry, sandy
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