. 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. YUCCA with median whitish stripe on the lvs. is var. medio- striata, Planch. Among the numerous varieties and forms into which this, the first-cultivated Yucca, has sported, the following are most worthy: Var. plicata
. 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. YUCCA with median whitish stripe on the lvs. is var. medio- striata, Planch. Among the numerous varieties and forms into which this, the first-cultivated Yucca, has sported, the following are most worthy: Var. plicata, Carr. Lvs. very glaucous, strongly plicate. III. T5:304. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 3, pi. 6. Var. recurvifolia, Engelni. ( Y. recurvi- fdlia, Salisb. 1". re- cnrva, Haw. V. pfn- dula, Hort. Has the lvs. less plicate, soon green, gracefully re- curved, occasionally with a few detaching marginal threads. Car- olina coast region. Gn. 47, p. 337. 1858, p. 433; 1859, p. 488. Variegated forms of this are the following: Var. marginata, Carr. Lvs. yellow-margined; var. variegata, Carr. Lvs. with yellow me- dian band; and var. elegans, Hort. Lvs. with reddish median band. ,Carr. (, Bak.). Lvs. glaucous, not pli- cate, less recurved. Var. flexilis, Trel. ( Y. fUxilis, Carr.). Lvs. long, narrow, less than an inch wide, scarcely plicate, glossy green, gracefully recurved, occasionally a little rough on the margin.— Hybrids of with both capsular and fleshy - fruited species have been artificially produced in Europe, and are in some European gardens under the names Y. Deleuili, Y. sulcata, Y. Carrierei, Y. Andreana, Y. draectnoides, Y. striatula, Y. Massiliensis, Y. ensi- fera, Y. Imviqata and Y. juncea. 1886, p. G3; 1895, p. 81. For descriptions see 1893, p. 109. Other hybrids not yet in the trade have more lately been produced by Sprenger, of Naples. C. aloifdlia, Linn. Slender simple trunk 10-15 ft. high: lvs. dagger-shaped, 1-2 in
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