. 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. 1078 NERIUM NERIUM (ancient name for Oleander, supposed to be from Oreek neros, "moist;" alluding to the places in which it grows wild). Apocyn&cece. The Oleander is an old-fashioned evergreen shrub known to everybody, and cultivated everywhere in souther
. 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. 1078 NERIUM NERIUM (ancient name for Oleander, supposed to be from Oreek neros, "moist;" alluding to the places in which it grows wild). Apocyn&cece. The Oleander is an old-fashioned evergreen shrub known to everybody, and cultivated everywhere in southern countries. The Bermudas, especially, are famous for their Oleander hedges. In the North the Oleander is a common house plant, being grown in tubs for summer decoration, and ranking in popularity after the sweet bay and hydrangea. It attains 7-15 ft., and blooms in summer, the fls. being salver-shaped, 5-Iobed when single, lK-3 in. across, and commonly pink or white, though the colors range from white through creamy white, blush, rose and copper color, to crimson and dark purple, with variegated The genus contains only 2 or 3 species. They are glabrous slirubs: Ivs. in whorls of 3, rarely 4 or 2, nar- row, leathery, feather-veined: fls. in ter- minal cymes; calyx with many glands inside at the base; corolla-tube cylindrical at the base; throat bell- shaped and containing 5 wide or narrow teeth; lobes twisted to the riglit; anthers 2-tailed at the base and tapering at the apex into a I style 1: ovaries 2, foniiintr ] Oleandersareof easy .nil city conditions. Their'-liiit bug. The scale li. - is easily dislodged liy tin- forms buds which open p( -like appendage; < twisted. e well adapted to ⢠scale and mealy , the mealy bug iietimes a plant at all. This ' often due to the imperfect ripening of the wood. The fls. are borne on the growth of the year, which should be '»P^f. 1478. Spray of OleandeiâNc I Olcandc well ripened in June in order to set man
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