. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Agave pilifera. a, flo'.ver; b, end of leaf. scape only, on which the flowers are usually densely crowded towards the upper part. In the case of the first section, death invariably ensues after flowering; ( but in the other, plants do sometimes survive the flowering state, when the spike is produced from a lateral and not the terminal bud. The American Agave appears to have first flowered in England about the year 1729. It had been reported to have The cultivation of Agaves is extremely simple; in fact, no class of plants can be managed so easily. The
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Agave pilifera. a, flo'.ver; b, end of leaf. scape only, on which the flowers are usually densely crowded towards the upper part. In the case of the first section, death invariably ensues after flowering; ( but in the other, plants do sometimes survive the flowering state, when the spike is produced from a lateral and not the terminal bud. The American Agave appears to have first flowered in England about the year 1729. It had been reported to have The cultivation of Agaves is extremely simple; in fact, no class of plants can be managed so easily. The flrst essential is thorough drainage, without which these plants wiU. soon take on a sickly yellow hue and rapidly die; but di-ain the pots well, use stiff j-ellow loam for the large-growing kinds, and a rather lighter loam for the less robust, and that is all that is required in the way of soiL. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901. London ; New York : Cassell
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