. 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. 1366. The descending root. 1367. Multiple tips of a Mangrove root-branch. dish colored and non-poisonous: anthers elongated: capsule only angular above, not winged. Brazil. âUsed as the last, but not so extensively. J. B. S. Norton. The cultivation of Cassava is of the simplest descrip- tion in the West Indies.
. 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. 1366. The descending root. 1367. Multiple tips of a Mangrove root-branch. dish colored and non-poisonous: anthers elongated: capsule only angular above, not winged. Brazil. âUsed as the last, but not so extensively. J. B. S. Norton. The cultivation of Cassava is of the simplest descrip- tion in the West Indies. A piece of the stem, 2 or 3 feet long, is planted in somewhat sandy ground and left to its fate, with occasional hoeing of weeds. In suitable soils in the driest parts of .Jamaica, it produces enor- mous crops with little or no attention. Ceara Rubber has not been cultivated in the West Indies to any extent, but it is like Cassava in its capa- bility of growing in dry, sandy soil. It would probably yield more rubber if grown in districts where irrigation is possible. â ^jj_ Fawcett. MANITOBA. See Canada. MANNA. SeeAlhagi. MANNING, ROBERT (.July IS, 1784, to Oct. 10, 1842), was one of the most thorough and accurate of American descriptive pomologists. In 1823 he established his "Fomological Garden" at Salem, Mass., for the purpose. 1368. Flowers and fruit of Manihot utilissima. Enlarged. of collecting and proving varieties of fruits. At the time of his death this garden contained more varieties of fruits than had ever been collected in America. Pears were his specialty, but he had all the fruits which would thrive in his climate. These fruits numbered nearly 2,000 varieties, of which about one-half were pears. These varieties were gathered from all parts of this country, and also from Europe. The new pears of Van Mons, the Flemish scientist and propounder of a theory of plant variation (see "Survival of the Unlike,''Essay V), were introduced largely by him. He
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