. 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. HERACLEUM AA. Plant biennial. Sibiricum, Linn. Lvs. scabrous to hirsute, pinnate or deeply pinnatifid; segments lobed or palraately parted, serrate: petals about equal: fr. subrotund-oval, deeply notched at the apex. Eu., N. , says this bears yellowish gree
. 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. HERACLEUM AA. Plant biennial. Sibiricum, Linn. Lvs. scabrous to hirsute, pinnate or deeply pinnatifid; segments lobed or palraately parted, serrate: petals about equal: fr. subrotund-oval, deeply notched at the apex. Eu., N. , says this bears yellowish green ils. in July and Aug. â ^. JI. ! old herbalists is Filago HEEBALS. Books on plants, published from the fourteenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, were largely written from the medicinal point of view, and were often called Herbals. The scientific point of view of plant-knowledge is conveniently dated from 1753,when Linnaeus published his "Species ; Of the her- balists, John Gerarde is probably read most at the present time. His style is chatty, quaint and personal. One of the notions accepted by the early herbalists was that of the vegetable lamb, which is pictured in this work under Clbotium (Pig. 470). Another idea that fasci- nated these worthy plant-lovers was that of the barnacle goose tree. Fig. 1040 is reproduced from a book by Buret, 160.'), and shows how the fruits that fall upon dry land become "flying birds," while those that fall into the water become "swimming ; Other conceptions of this goose tree are reproduced in the Gardeners' Magazine 35:749 (18H2). Almost every large li- brary possesses a few Herbals, as Matthiolus, Bauhin, L'Obel and Fuchsius. The largest collec- tion of Herbals in America is the one given by the late E. Lewis Sturtevant to the Missouri Botanical Garden at St. Louis. ticulturist who takes delight in his profession should have an Herbarium, as it increases im- mensely the value and pl
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