. 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. 1421. Morinea oleiferaâ the Horse-radish Tree. staminoflia, the anthers attached on the back, and l-lo- culed: fr. a long, 4-9-angled, 1-locuIed pod with 3 valves, the seeds immersed in the spongy contents of the valves. oleifera, Lam. (if. plerygospirma, Gjertn.). Horse- radish Tree. Figs. 1420, U21. Small tre
. 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. 1421. Morinea oleiferaâ the Horse-radish Tree. staminoflia, the anthers attached on the back, and l-lo- culed: fr. a long, 4-9-angled, 1-locuIed pod with 3 valves, the seeds immersed in the spongy contents of the valves. oleifera, Lam. (if. plerygospirma, Gjertn.). Horse- radish Tree. Figs. 1420, U21. Small tree (reaching 25 ft.), with soft wood and corky bark, the young parts :: piiiiiaic, 1-2 ft. ;, all parts pubescent: Ivs. i stalked: fls. wliin often'lK ft. seeds. India, Imi ll"r pungent tastp ui The young tr. i^ nuts) yield an oil. The tree is some U. .S. the pod Qged the W. uhe L. H. B. MORMdDES (Greek, re grotesque creature). Orchi- (larete. This genus is remarkable for the interesting form of its flowers, which suggested the name given to the genus by Lindley. The plants are rather large, with long, tapering pseudobulbs sheathed by the dry bases of the fallen Ivs.: Ivs. long, plaited, deciduous in beariii;; liiaiiy sh,.\vy tN.: ^.p.'iK :, jirtal^ |ntil. mostly narrow; hili.'llMiii lii-nil\' iiniti'd with tin- i-dluinii' with ruvuhltr ]:;ilis, (â¢"ncav. tlirircl t,. oTn- side; cohimii withont apiMiKlagcs, in tbc oppo- site direction from the labellum. Distinguished from the closely related genus Catasetum by its perfect fls. and wingless column. MORUENIA Mnrmodes are commonly found in poor condition among the collections, which is the result of neglect rather than difliculty of cultivation. They should be grown in small baskets suspended from the roof, in a compost of equal parts of clean chopped peat-fiber, sphag- num and sod, interspersed by nodules of charcoal, and the whole pressed in firmly around the root
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