. 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. usually with zigzag mostly simple angled pubescent stems: lvs. ovate, with broad base, angular, the peti- ole Avidening at the top: fls. whitish, the anthers yel- low: fr. red (sometimes eaten), tlie ripe large calyx blood-red and very showy. Seems to be native from southeastern Europe to Japan, but now adventi
. 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. usually with zigzag mostly simple angled pubescent stems: lvs. ovate, with broad base, angular, the peti- ole Avidening at the top: fls. whitish, the anthers yel- low: fr. red (sometimes eaten), tlie ripe large calyx blood-red and very showy. Seems to be native from southeastern Europe to Japan, but now adventive or naturalized in many parts of the world. Gn. 41, p. 577; 49, p. 233; 57, pp. 28, Strawberry Tomato is an old garden plant, grown for its highly colored blad- ders. The plant grows 12-18 in. tall. Of easiest culture. In the North, plants are usually started indoors. It is a perennial, the roots withstanding much frost if pro- tected, but it is usually grown as an annual. Not hardy in the northern states. Yicsinch^tifMast.{€ke}i^l,Yar. FrancMtl, Hort.). Chinese Lantern Plant. Differs from J^. Alkekengi chiefly in its greater size, making a plant 2 ft. tall and bearing calyxes 2 in. in diam. In his original descrip- tion of the species, Masters ( III. 16, p. 434) makes the following characters: "It differs from P. AJkekevgi in being an unbi-anched annual, not a perennial, with a fibrous root, with erect branches, not creeping at the base, glabrous instead of setose, in its much larger size, in the leaf-stalks being considerably shorter in propor- tion to the ; Japan. III. 10:441. Gn. 48, p. 435: 49:1059; 57, p. 28; .58, p. 196. 37:626. HI. 29:343. 1897:376 and p. 35. 22:61; 23, p. 91. Gt. 45, p. 636; 46, p. 193. A G. 18:81. 1 of the most profusely advertised novelties of recent years. It is a most striking and showy plant. It was brought 1774. Physalis ixocarpa in its cultivated form (fruits y^Yz). The
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