. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. NEPETA vases and baskets. Nepeta is a genu cies, mostly in the northern henli^ tropics. Perennial or annual herlts dwarf and more or less trailing: Ivs. the flor: NEPHROLEPIS 1075. ⢠ri-st or redurcd to bruL-ts : whorls of Hs. crowded in a dense spike, or in a loose c
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. NEPETA vases and baskets. Nepeta is a genu cies, mostly in the northern henli^ tropics. Perennial or annual herlts dwarf and more or less trailing: Ivs. the flor: NEPHROLEPIS 1075. ⢠ri-st or redurcd to bruL-ts : whorls of Hs. crowded in a dense spike, or in a loose cyme, rarely few- fld. and'axillary: lis. blue or white; calyx 15-nerved; corolla 2-lipped; perfect stamens 4: ovary 4-parted. The genus is placed be- tween Lopanthus and Dracocephalum, and is characterized as follows: calyx tubular, the mouth straight or oblique, 5- toothed; stamens usually parallel, ascending; anther cells divergent or divari- cate. See Fig. 1473 . ?i'epeta O'ieehoma is a perennial erveping plant of easy culture in any , rich, fairly moist soil, in either shade or full sunliglit, but to be luxuriant in the open it should have a moist soil. It is a very rapid grower, and is therefore often troublesome when planted with other low-growing plants. It is useful as a ground covering in shrubbery borders and shady places generally. A. Blooms smaU, inconspicuous^ B. Color of fls. white or nearly so. Catiria, Linn. Catnip or Catnep. Catmint. Figs. 1473, 1474. Tall and erect: Ivs. heart-sbaped, green above, whitish below, crenate, stalked. Eu., Orient. BB. Color of fls. blue. Glechdma, Benth. Ground Ivt. Gill-ovek-the- Ground. Makes a dense mat: Ivs. roundish, more deeply notched at the base than Catnip, and green on both sides, the floral ones like the others, not reduced to bracts as in the other kinds here described: whorls axilbii-v, few-fld. Nat. from Eu., Asia. 3:87.âThe grcin-ivd. form is less cult, than var. variegata (iV. lull, racea. Trev., var. varieg
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