. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . .—C. pH«ccps = Acanthocereuspentagonus.—C. procu?n6e7is=Echinocereus. — C. queretarensis^Pacfiycercua quer
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . .—C. pH«ccps = Acanthocereuspentagonus.—C. procu?n6e7is=Echinocereus. — C. queretarensis^Pacfiycercua queretarensis.—C. fieffciu*=SeIenicereu3 hybrid.—C. rcpdndus = Harrisia gracilis.—C. /i:sus = Wilcoxia.— C. J N. CERINTHE (Greek, keros, wax; nnlhos. flower: theancients thought that the bees visited the flowers forwax). Boniginacca. .\iutual or perennial herbs fromEurope and .Vsia Minor, with alternate glaucousleaves and showy purple bracts. Calyx deeply divided, the tubular corolla with 5 verysmall reflexed lobes, usually ditlerentlv (U)lored from ^^^P. XXV. Celery.—The cultivation under field conditions, at the hilling-up or banking stage. CERINTHE CEROPTERIS 725 the tube.—About 6 species. The best species is , which has a unique appearance in the garden,and is strongly recommended for more general is a hardy annual of easy cult. retorta, Sibth. & Smith. Honeywort. Fig. 1} 2-2 ft.: Ivs. glaucous, often spotted white orred; lower Ivs. obovate-spatulate; upper Ivs. amplexi-caul, with 2 round ears, on the flowering branches gradu-ally becoming smaller and closer together until theypass into purple bracts, which form the chief attractivefeature of the plant; fls. when full-blown protrudedbeyond the bracts; corolla tubular-club-shaped, yellow,tipped purple, with 5 small, spreading teeth: frs. smoothbut not shining. Greece. 5264. Gn. 41 a garden review of the other honeyworts, seeGn. 41, p.
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