. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1280 PERNETTYA wood in summer under glass; also by means of layers and suckers. Grown chiefly for the ornamental fruit. About 25 species from Mexico to the Magellan region, mostly in the mountains and 1 species in Tasmania and New Zealand. Fls. axillary, usually solita
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1280 PERNETTYA wood in summer under glass; also by means of layers and suckers. Grown chiefly for the ornamental fruit. About 25 species from Mexico to the Magellan region, mostly in the mountains and 1 species in Tasmania and New Zealand. Fls. axillary, usually solitary on slender nodding pedicels, rarely in racemes; calyx 5-parted; corolla urceolate, with short 5-lobed limb; stamens 10. the anthers 4-awued at the apex: fr. a 5-celled many- seeded berry. Allied to Gaultheria, but the calyx not enlarged and rarely fleshy after flowering. mucronita, Gaudich. (Arbutus miicron&tus, Linn, f.)- Much-branched shrub, to 2 ft., with glabrous or spar- ingly hairy branches: Ivs. almost two-ranked, ovate, spiny-pointed, serrate, dark green and shining above, glabrous, %-% in. long: fls. solitary, nodding, subglo- bose, white or slightly tinged pink, about one-fifth in. long: fr. white to dark purple, %-yi in. across, red in the t}-pical form. Mav, June. Magellan region to Chile. 3093. 20:1(;95. 19:1848. Gn. 23:389; 59, p. 41. Gt. 34, p. 214. 40:811, 1898:397. â Many vars. partly originated by hybridizing with the followmg species are cult, in English and Dutch nur- , mustiv diffiriii},' in the color of the fr., which is usually by name of the var., as, var. Alba, atropurpiirea, coccinea i 1879:339), lilaclna ( lS7;t::i:;'J), nigra, purpurea ( 1879:339), rdsea, san- gulnea. .\N" /*. Drummondi, Cummlnqi, speeioaa, fl.,r,l,,i,âT., (( II. 18:649 and III. 28:4C5), belong lifT'-. /'. niiiri'mitia and its vars. are among our most ornaiiiciital fnnting shrubs in winter-tirae,
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