. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 724 HELICODICEROS from bulb dealers in the fall and flowered under glass in the spring. It is a most vile-smelling plant when in full flower. The plucky artist who drew the accom- panying picture of this arum wrote at
. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 724 HELICODICEROS from bulb dealers in the fall and flowered under glass in the spring. It is a most vile-smelling plant when in full flower. The plucky artist who drew the accom- panying picture of this arum wrote at the bottom of his drawing, "Air ';. 1031. Helicodiccros (x;^). muscivorus. Eng. {JI. crinllus, Schott. Arum crin\- tum, Ait. Draciinculus cW«, Schott). Fig. 1031. Height lyi ft.: spathe-limb purple, covered with purple hairs. Corsica. 10:831. 5:445. W. M. HELICONIA (Mt. Helicon, in Greece, seat of the Muses). Sriliimint)cea. Foliage plants allied to Musa. Perhaps 25 to 30 species in tropical America. The plants are grown in a warmhouse along with Alocasias, An- thuriums and Calatheas: the directions given for the cultivation of Calatliea apply very well to Heliconia. Under the name of Wild Plantain or Balisier. H. Bihai is cult, outdoors in S. Pla. and along the Gulf of Mex. It is au evergreen shrub rivaling the bananas in foliage and scarlet and black flower-sheaths. E. N. Reasoner classes it among plants that sprout up readily in the ex- treme South if killed by frost, and recommends it as a house plant for the South. From Musa, Heliconia differs chiefly in having a dry, often dehiscing, 3-loculed, 3-seeded fruit. FIs. in clus- ters below the Ivs., subtended by bracts afterthe way of Musa; sepals 3, linear, free or somewhat joined to the corolla; corolla short-tubed; stamens 5; staminodium 1: Ivs. large and striking, often beautifully marked; stems arising from a strong rootstock. Various species have been introduced into cult., but the followin
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