. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. ually by means of thickened or tuberous underground stems, glabrous or pubescent-hirsute: Ivs. unequally pmnate, the 5-9 oblong-ovate Ifts. interposed with much smaller ones: fls. lilac or white, in long-stemmed dichotomous clusters, the corolla prominently lobed: fr.
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. ually by means of thickened or tuberous underground stems, glabrous or pubescent-hirsute: Ivs. unequally pmnate, the 5-9 oblong-ovate Ifts. interposed with much smaller ones: fls. lilac or white, in long-stemmed dichotomous clusters, the corolla prominently lobed: fr. a small globular yellow berry, usually not produced in the highly developed modern varieties. Temperate Andesof Chile and adjacent regions. âSee Po/a/o. There is a form with yellow-blotched Ivs. (known as var. va- riegatum) sometimes cult, for ornament. Var. boreaie, Gray (S. Flndhrl, Gray). Plant usu- allj smaller as ilso the tubers, which are about K in. in diam and send off long, creeping subterranean stolons mterposul Itt- one or two or even none- corolla iii^l 1 "Mts s (_olo to Mex-Apparently only anoithw il \t i in t the species 2 Magha s lil lit I)\R-niN Potato More slender and ert t tli m s t il k \um and nearly or quite gla- brous Itts usuUly smaller the interposed ones few and very small tls smaller than those of S hiherosum, white, slender pediceled m loose, long forked cymes' tubers small (2 in or less long), globose or oblong, soft and watery Coast region of Chile B M 67>() -Some- tinies cult as a curiosity It has been thought by some to be the original of the Potato, but this is now given up Darwin describes the plant in his "Naturalist's Voyage " As grown by the writer the plant has given little promise in the production of tubers, for the tubers are small and soft 3 J&mesu, Torr Low and slender, 12-18 in tall un- der cultivation, the small angular branches gHbrous or jommg so hs oblong in geneiil outline, the rachis narrow winged, the Ifts
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