Archive image from page 294 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 cyclopediaofam02bail Year: 1900 HOTTONIA submerged and alternate, pinnately dissected Ivs., the divisions numerous and linear. From the center of the whorl oE branches a single leafless flower-stem rises out of the water in summer, bearing a ra
Archive image from page 294 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 cyclopediaofam02bail Year: 1900 HOTTONIA submerged and alternate, pinnately dissected Ivs., the divisions numerous and linear. From the center of the whorl oE branches a single leafless flower-stem rises out of the water in summer, bearing a raceme with sev- eral whorls of 3-5 or 6 handsome, pale purple fls., ap- 1101, Hutbed (or forcing-house) heated by hot water. parently with 5 petals, but actually with a short corolla tul:)e below the lobes. The plants root in the mud or float, and the fls. are about three-fourths of an inch in diameter. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla: capsule subglobose, with 5 lateral valves : seeds nu- merous. The American plant, H. inflita, Ell., has spoH'TV stems and peduncles, which are partly nl' \ i i I 1 ii I 1 ml i the lowest jomt 2-4 in I 11- I I'll the others 1-3 in num I â 1 1 fls small, in whorls of 2-M t 1 I II Neither species is id HOUSE PLANTS lib HOUSE LEEK. Sempervinim tectorum. HOUSE PLANTS (Figs. 1102-1104) are those plants which can be grown in the ordinary rooms of dwelling houses. They may be hardy or tender; but only such as are suitable for this purpose will be considered here. In the living rooms of the modern well-built house, plants must contend against difficulties which did not exist in the less carefully equipped dwellings of fifty years ago or earlier. The present methods of heating and lighting, by gas or kerosene lamps, not electricity, produce a dry atmosphere which is inimical to vegetable growth. In houses lighted by electricity, and heated by any system which introduces fresh air in abundance, this matter is not so troublesome
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