. 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. PEDICULARIS PELARGONIUM 1257 commonly tufted, %-!% ft. high: Ivs. mostly alternate, pinnately parted, all but the uppermost peti- oled: fls. yellow or reddish, rarely white. April-June. Dry woods and thickets, Nova Scotia to Manitoba; south, Fla. to N. Mes. B. B. 3:1SG. 2506. W. M. V'E.'QlLkNT'^{shoe-fl
. 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. PEDICULARIS PELARGONIUM 1257 commonly tufted, %-!% ft. high: Ivs. mostly alternate, pinnately parted, all but the uppermost peti- oled: fls. yellow or reddish, rarely white. April-June. Dry woods and thickets, Nova Scotia to Manitoba; south, Fla. to N. Mes. B. B. 3:1SG. 2506. W. M. V'E.'QlLkNT'^{shoe-flower). Eu- phorbiacew. Mostly small succulent shrubs, having the characters of Eu- phorbia, except that the involucre is irregular and enlarged into a short spur on the upper side. About 15 species in tropical America. They are easily grown with the fleshy Eu- phorbias in sandy loam, well drained and manured. Propagated by cut- ting dried at the base, then inserted in occasionally moistened sand. tithymaloides, Poit. Bird Cactus. Jew Bush. Stem 4-6 ft. high, green: Ivs. lanceolate, 1-3 in. long, dark green: involucres bright red, pointed, declined, K-% in. long, in terminal cymes: stamen and style long ex serted. West Indies. , 10:837. 8:727 (Eu- pJiorhia canaliculata). ] 2514 [Euphorhia carinata). P. Tndcropus, Benth., with whitish steins and minute leaves, from Calif., is occasiou- ally cultivated. J. B. PEEN-TO, or Flat Peach of the South is Prinnis Persica, var. See Peach and Prnmts. PEEPTTL TEEE. Fictis religiosa. PEIRESKIA. See Pereskia. PELARGONIUM (stork, because the fruit is long and slender like a stork's bill). Geranldcece. Gera- nium of gardens. Pelargonium. The person who wishes to study the contemporaneous evolution of plants may find his heart's desire in Pelar- gonium. With great numbers of spe- cies and many of them variable and confusing in a wild state, with plant- breeding in many places and con- tinued through two centuries, and with
Size: 1279px × 1955px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgardening
