. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Aniaryliidca'—Boniarca. 493 10. BOMAUEA. Is of close affinity with the preceding genus and from the same regions, differing mainly in the climbing habit and tri- angular seed-pod, which instead of splitting to the base opens at the top only. Some of the species possess about the same degree of hardiness as the hardiest Alsh'oemerias. B. Salsilla (fig. 2
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Aniaryliidca'—Boniarca. 493 10. BOMAUEA. Is of close affinity with the preceding genus and from the same regions, differing mainly in the climbing habit and tri- angular seed-pod, which instead of splitting to the base opens at the top only. Some of the species possess about the same degree of hardiness as the hardiest Alsh'oemerias. B. Salsilla (fig. 243) is a pretty twining plant with glabrous leaves and purple flowers about half an inch long, the two upper and inner segments having a darker spot at the base, and all of them tinged with green towards the points. 11. AGAVE. A noble genus of succulent or fleshy-leaved plants with a tall branched inflorescence resembling a huge candelabrum. Perianth funnel - shaped, persistent, of six nearly equal divisions. Stamens exceeding the expanded perianth. The name is from the Greek aryavoa, in allusion to the stately habit of many species They are chiefly natives of Mexico and South America. The best known is A. Americana, but this is only hardy in the south-western counties of England. It is almost stemless, with very massive fleshy spinose crowded leaves from 3 to 6 feet long, which are of many years' duration. It is essentially monocarpic, but it is usually many years before it reaches maturity. The inflorescence attains a height of 20 or 30 feet, bearing many hundreds of erect yellowish flowers. This plant is commonly known as the American Aloe, and is usually grown in tubs to admit of giving it shelter the more readily in Winter. It is exceedingly ornamental, and is a very striking object in a large garden, especially the variegated Fig. 243. Bomarea Salsilla. (J nat. size.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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