. 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 . as to give it the appearance ofbeing a glabrous Lvs. medium to large, very broad, fleshyor thic
. 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 . as to give it the appearance ofbeing a glabrous Lvs. medium to large, very broad, fleshyor thick, entire, often peltate {san-guinea).EE. Lvs. medium size, stiff, green and shining,often elongated, mostly undulate Fls. white {angularis, ulmifolia. Ion-gipes, undulata, kewensis).FF. Fls. colored {nitida, Teuscheri, Bis-?narckii, carminata, polyantha, coc-cinea).EEE, Lvs. medium to large, the marginsstrongly toothed, incised or Fls. white {Madame de Lesseps, olbia).FF. Fls. colored, varying to tinted white{argenteo-gullata, maculata, Thurs-tonii, dichroa, cororuita, phyllo-maniaca, President Carnot, lucerna) I. Bulbous Beoonias, and 8emi-Bulbous or Semi-TuBEKOUs Derivatives. 1. socotrSna, Hook. Fig. 504. A winter-floweringspecies: st. annual, stout and succulent, forming atthe base a nu/nbcr of closely set scales or suppressedlvs. resembling bulbs: lvs. dark green, orbicular, pel-tate, 4-7 in. across, center depressed, margin recurved, BEGONIA BEGONIA 473. SD7. Begottia Davisii C X H>- No. 6. crenate: fls. all male except the terminal one of eachbranch of the cyme, in terminal few-fid. cvmes, brightrose II. 15:8. 6555. Gn. 2iri63; 49:42(5( B. Gloire de Lorraine). III. 51:317. , p. 130; 1909, p. 426. 13:587, 588.—Bulbs orsemi-tubers were brought from the hot sandy island ofSocotra by I. B. Balfour, and grown at Kew in species was first described in Gardeners Chronicle in 1881, and in thesame year in Bo-tanica
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