. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. n longstalks (8 or 9 inches in length), with roundish orbroadly ovate-acute leaves about 5 inches long by6 inches on greatest breadth, deeply cordate, or hastateat the base, acute or tail-pointed at the apex, andcoarsely toothed at the margins. The fluted flower-stalks are about 2 feet in height, with stalked leaves,the stalks dilated and sheathing, near the base ovate-acute. The flower-heads are borne in erect, oblongspikes about 6 inches in length. The bracts are involucre cylindrical, t
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. n longstalks (8 or 9 inches in length), with roundish orbroadly ovate-acute leaves about 5 inches long by6 inches on greatest breadth, deeply cordate, or hastateat the base, acute or tail-pointed at the apex, andcoarsely toothed at the margins. The fluted flower-stalks are about 2 feet in height, with stalked leaves,the stalks dilated and sheathing, near the base ovate-acute. The flower-heads are borne in erect, oblongspikes about 6 inches in length. The bracts are involucre cylindrical, three times longer thanbroad. The yellow oblanceolate 3-toothed ray-floretsare female only, solitary in the species, three in thevariety comosa, here figured (figs. 55, 56), and ultimatelybent downwards; florets of the disc hermaphrodite,twice as long as the greyish-brown pappus ; achenesglabrous. It is a native of the hillsides near Hakone. The variety comosa, here figured, differs from thetype in the longer bracts and the presence of threeray-florets, instead of one. Franchet and Savatier. Fig. 55.—senecio details natural size ; pollen magnified 32 diam. Speak of it as cultivated only, but Mr. Dickins in-forms us that he has met with it in a wild state nearHakone. The pollen cells, as examined by Mr. Smith, are globular, and covered with spine-likeprocesses. Senecio stenocephala forms one of a small group ofvery curious species of Senecio natives of Japan, allof which would be worthy of cultivation as herbaceousperennials if, as is most probable, they should provehardy here. Our figure and description were takenfrom Mr. Bulls plant. iM. T. M. Pickling Onions.—The yV^w Vor/: 7rid!mesta.{esthat the aggregate length of the Onion rows on apickle farm near Chicago is 320 miles! Amorpha canescens.—This is a hardy decidu-ous shrub, which is but rarely met with in nurseries,and yet it is a decidedly handsome and desirableplant. It is not such a tall growe
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