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 . ender styleappendages, compressed several-nerved akenes, and an involucre with unequal bracts in few or sev-eral rows, the pappus simple, soft,and abundant (Fig. 161). Leafy-stemmed, mostly blooming in theautumn. Some of the species areannual, but those in cult, are per-ennial (or ra
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 . ender styleappendages, compressed several-nerved akenes, and an involucre with unequal bracts in few or sev-eral rows, the pappus simple, soft,and abundant (Fig. 161). Leafy-stemmed, mostly blooming in theautumn. Some of the species areannual, but those in cult, are per-ennial (or rarely biennial). All areeasy of cultivation in ordinary soiland exposures, and are among thebest plants for the hardy borderor for naturalizing in the freerparts of the grounds. They growreadily from seeds, but are gen- erally prop by divisioii of the „, pappus; ),. coroUa:clumps. Calimens and Linosyns f.^ stamens; d. styles,are kept dLstinct iu this book. A. Ohl World Asters, some of them old garden jilants, and somewhat modified by cult. B. Stems simple and scape-like, bearing a single fl. alplnus, Linn. Lvs. entire and spatulate, forming acluster on the ground, those on the stem small andlinear : st. 3-lfl in., bearing a large violet-rayed, hand-some head. 199. —In its wild state, the plant also. 112 ASTER occurs in the Rocky Mts. Valuable alpine or rockworkplant, with fls. varying to pink and white. Var. specid-sus, is taller and stronger, with heads 11-4 Var. 8up6rhus, Hort. (Gn. 54: 1193), is a largeand showy form. HimaUicua, C. B. Clarke (.4. ffimalay^nsis, Hort.).Similar to A. alplnux, but dwarfer : rays lilac-blue,slightly recurved at the tip : sts. 4-12 in., slightly vil-lous : Ivs, oblong or elliptic, nearly entire. Himalayas,13,000-15,000 known in America. diplostephioides, Benth. T\oto itor hdirsolitaryoblanceolate tt 1 il e cent f 1 I lean 1 ol \ ate 1 entire I ut ciliate solitirj head lai geinclined 2 3 m ici ssblue or pale pu
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