Archive image from page 515 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 1934 VINCA VINCA slowly but surely in about a nionth, and until February will do very well in a 2M-iucli put. About the middle of February shake off the soil and give theui a 3-inch pot, and they will make a fi
Archive image from page 515 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 1934 VINCA VINCA slowly but surely in about a nionth, and until February will do very well in a 2M-iucli put. About the middle of February shake off the soil and give theui a 3-inch pot, and they will make a fine growth bv middle of May. In dark purple fis.; aurea variegata, with golden variega- tion; caerulea, with sinjle blue fis.; plena, with double blue fls.; rosea, with single rosy fls.; purpurea plna, with purple double fls. Gn. 50:1078. Some of these are 2671. Vinca minor, the Common Periwinkle, or Running Myrtle. Natural size. growing these trailing Vincas in pots the principal point to observe is never to let them want for water. William Scott. Vinca is a genus of herbs or subshrubs, erect or pro- cumbent: Ivs. opposite: fls. rather large, axillary, soli- tary; corolla salver-shaped, with a narrow throat which is pilose inside or thickened-calloused; stamens in- cluded above the middle of the tube; carpels 2, distinct; stigma annular, thick, viscid; ovules 6-mauy in each carpel, in 2 series: follicles 2, erect or divergent. The genus may be divided into 2 sections: 1. Pervinca, in which the antlier-cells are short and divided by a wide connective; 2. Lochuera, in which the anther-cells are normal. V. ro.'ea belongs to Section 2; the others men- tioned below are included in Section 1. alba, 1, 4. argentea, 1. atropuvpurea, 1. aurea, 2. Bride, The, 1. cserulea, 1. INDEX. elegantissima, 1,2. herbaeea, 3. major, 2. minor. 1. ociilata, 4. plena, 1. purpiu'ea, 1. reticulata, 2. rosea, 4. variegata, 2. varius, 4. A. Trailing herbs, hardy or nearly so, only the short flowering st
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