. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 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: lvs
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 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: lvs. 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-many in each carpel, in 2 series: follicles 2, erect or divergent. The genus may be divided into 2 sections: 1. Pervinca, in which the anther-cells are short and divided by a wide connective; 2. Lochnera, in which the anther-cells are normal. V. rosea belongs to Section 2; the others men- tioned below are included in Section 1. alba, 1, 4. argentea, 1. atropnrpurea, 1. aurea, 2. Bride. The, 1. caerulea, 1. elegantissima,l,2. herbacea, 3. major, 2. oculata, 4. plena, 1. purpurea, 1. reticulata, 2. rosea, 4. variegata, 2. varius, 4. A. Trailing herbs, hardy or nearly so, only the short flowering stems ascending: fls. produced in spring or early summer, mostly blue or white. European species. B. Foliage evergreen. C. Lvs. ovate or oblong-ovate: corolla-lobes wedge- shaped: calyx glabrous. 1. minor, Linn. Cosimon Periwinkle. Blue, Run- ning or Trailing Myrtle. Fig. 2071. Hardy evergreen trailing herb, in all country gardens and running wild in cemeteries and shady places, the blue-fld. or typical form being commonest. Often called "Myrtle"but the classic myrtle is Myrtus communis. Very rarely pro- duces seed, but spreads f
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