Archive image from page 299 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer06bail Year: 1906 1934 VINCA slowly but surely in about a month, and until February will do very well in a 2-mch pot. About the middle of February shake off the soil and give them a 3-inch
Archive image from page 299 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer06bail Year: 1906 1934 VINCA slowly but surely in about a month, and until February will do very well in a 2-mch pot. About the middle of February shake off the soil and give them a 3-inch pot, and they will make a fine growth bv middle of May. In VINCA dark purple fls.; aurea variegata, with golden variega- tion; csBrulea, with single blue fls.; plena, with double blue fls.; rosea, with single rosy fls.; purpurea plena, with purple double fls. Gn. 50:1078. Some of these are Running Myrtle. Natural size. growing these trailing Vincas in pots the principal point to observe is never to let them want for water. William Scott. Vinca is a genus of herbs or subshrubs, erect or pro- cumbent: lvs. opposite: fls. rather large, axillary, soli- tary; corolla salver-shaped, with a narrow throat which is pilose inside or thickened-calloused; stamens in- cluded above the middle of the tube; carpels 2, distinct; stigma annular, thick, viscid; ovules 6-many in each carpel, in 2 series: follicles 2, erect or divergent. The genus may be divided into 2 sections: 1. Pervinca, in which the anther-cells are short and divided by a wide connective; 2. Lochnera, in which the anther-cells are normal. V. rosea belongs to Section 2; the others men- tioned below are included in Section 1. alba, 1, 4. argentea, 1. atropnrpurea, 1. aurea, 2. Bride. The, 1. caerulea, 1. elegantissima,l,2. herbacea, 3. major, 2. oculata, 4. plena, 1. purpurea, 1. reticulata, 2. rosea, 4. variegata, 2. varius, 4. A. Trailing herbs, hardy or nearly so, only the short flowering stems ascending: fls. produced in
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