. 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. 32 ^SCULUS AGAPANTHUS versicoloryDipp.( Pdvia ki/brida, Spach. ^. or P. I/ffoni, Hort.). Intermediate between A. octandra and A. Pa via. Lvs. pubescent beneath: fls. yellow, tinged with red or nearly red. Pivia, Linn. {Pcivia rubra, Poir. P. Michauxi, Spach.). Shrub or small tree, 4-20 ft.: l
. 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. 32 ^SCULUS AGAPANTHUS versicoloryDipp.( Pdvia ki/brida, Spach. ^. or P. I/ffoni, Hort.). Intermediate between A. octandra and A. Pa via. Lvs. pubescent beneath: fls. yellow, tinged with red or nearly red. Pivia, Linn. {Pcivia rubra, Poir. P. Michauxi, Spach.). Shrub or small tree, 4-20 ft.: leaflets oblong or elliptical, acute at both ends, finely serrate, smooth or pubescent beneath : panicles 4-7 in. long, loose ; fis. purplish to dark red ; petals very dissunilar ; stamens mostly 8, nearly as long as the petals : fr. smooth. May-June. N. Amer. 993. 13:1257. Var. hilmiUs {A. hwmilis, Lodd.). Low shrub, 2-4 ft.: leaflets coarsely and unequally serrate, tonientose be- neath : fls. red, tinged with yellow ; calyx dark red. 1018.—Many garden forms, as var. cornea, Hort. Fls. flesh-colored. Var. atrosanguinea, Hort. Fls. very dark red. Var. "WMtleyi, Hort. Fls. brilliant red. Var. p6ndula, Hort. (, var. p4ndula, Hort.). Dwarf form, with pendulous branches : lvs. smooth. Some forms with variegated lvs. BB. Fls. pure tvhife, small; petals d-6; stamens more tlian twice as long as the petals, (Macrothyrsns.) parviflora, Walt. (^. niacrostdchya, Michs, Pavia alba, Poir.). Shrub, 3-10 ft.: leaflets 5-7, elliptical or oblong-ovate, nearly sessUe, finely serrate, pubescent beneath : panicles 8-16 in. long, narrow ; fr. smooth. July~Aug. S. states. Gng. 7 of the handsomest plants for a lawn clump. ^. CMnensis, Bunge. Allied to A. turbinata. Leaflets dis- tinctly petioled. roivnded at the base. China.—^. Indica, Colebr. Fls. similar to .,31. Hippocastanum; lvs. obovate-lanceo- late, distinctly petioled, smooth. Himal.
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