. 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. 1904. Russian mulberry (X/^). The plant is very in character of fnilt and in shape of leaves. See Morus. tains a description of 225 varieties of apples, nearly all of Russian origin. A wood-cut of each appears, in addition to 144 colored plates. Gibb calls it "a grand, good fundamental
. 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. 1904. Russian mulberry (X/^). The plant is very in character of fnilt and in shape of leaves. See Morus. tains a description of 225 varieties of apples, nearly all of Russian origin. A wood-cut of each appears, in addition to 144 colored plates. Gibb calls it "a grand, good fundamental ; American literature on Rus- sian fruits is mainly confined to three sources: the reports of the Montreal Horticultural Society, publica- 1905 Pickerel weed—Pontedena cordata. PONTEDfiRIA (G. Pontedera was an Italian botanist, 1688-1757). Pontedei'iacece, According to Engler (DC Monogr. Phaner. 4, p. 5^1) there are two species of Pontederia. P. cordata^ with several varieties, occurs in both North and South America; P. rotundifolia is native from Nicaragua to Argentina. Perennial herbs of bogs and ponds, with strong horizontal rootstocks, short spikes of showy blue flowers and mostly cordate- oblong or ovate mostly shining leaves. The North American P. cord&.ta, Linn., Pickerel-Weed (Fig. 1905), is common east of the Plains region on the borders of ponds and along the margins of slow streams. It is a strong-growing perennial, standing in clumps and send- ing up several strong stems (from well-established plants) 2—4 ft. tall, each stem bearing 1 cordate-ovate leaf-blade and usually several leaf-sheaths: fis. light blue, somewhat 2-lipped, with 6 linear-oblong and spreading lobes, the middle upper lobe yellow-spotted at the base inside; stamens 6, trimorphous; ovary with 3 locules, 2 of which develop no seeds: fr. a 1-seeded utricle. Pontederias are well worth cultivation in bog gardens and shallow ponds, and P. cordata is offered by dealers in native plants. It thrives
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