. 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. 1200 PANDANUS grown to a considerable age and height for the saku of a perfcc-t specimen of the spiral habit of growtli on a large scalr. li^-. li;:il. In the tropics P. utiHs is as valiKiM.' ti ; hitim-s as many palms. The fruits are , .-in.! Uu- ,,is furnish fiber for ropes, bas- kets,
. 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. 1200 PANDANUS grown to a considerable age and height for the saku of a perfcc-t specimen of the spiral habit of growtli on a large scalr. li^-. li;:il. In the tropics P. utiHs is as valiKiM.' ti ; hitim-s as many palms. The fruits are , .-in.! Uu- ,,is furnish fiber for ropes, bas- kets, nulls :is ilo also the leaves, which are iised in makinn pnpc-r and nets. In Mauritius the leaves of P. odoratissimus are used to make the bags in which coffee, sugar and grain are exported. Screw Pines are widely distributed in the tropics, but they are most jilontiful in the JIalay Archipelago, callused, meanwhile giving them a fair amount of bot- P. ulilis is propagated by seeds, which are a regular commodity and sure to germinate well. Seeds should be planted in light soil and placed in a warmhouse. The seeds should be set "bottom up," as this is the end from which the germs emerge. The seeds are o<ld-look- ing, being closely set in a more or less globular mass that hangs down on a stout stem, while the iiulividual. 1630. Pandanus Veitchii. There are more than 50 species. Trees or shrubs, rarely stemless or prostrate herbs: trunk slender or robust: Ivs. very long or moderately so. There is only one other genus in the order, —Preycinetia. This has nu- merous ovules in the locules, while those of Pandanus are solitn?-y in the carpels. Also Freycinetias are usu- ally scandent. The botany of Pandanus is almost hopeless. Panda- nus presents an acute example of the stock difSculties with foliage plants: flowers and fruits rarely produced in cultivation ; no monograph ; original descriptions scattered through many rare and costly books, and often faulty
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