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. 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. enth. {A. rerticillrttum. Hook. I, excellent for springflowering in the coolhouse. Prop, by cuttings in earlysummer. Let the plant rest during summer. Do notexpose to frost. It produces many pinkish fls. In densespicate whorls near the top of the branches. Lvs. in3s. sessile, dentate: fls. with 5 petals and 10
. 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. enth. {A. rerticillrttum. Hook. I, excellent for springflowering in the coolhouse. Prop, by cuttings in earlysummer. Let the plant rest during summer. Do notexpose to frost. It produces many pinkish fls. In densespicate whorls near the top of the branches. Lvs. in3s. sessile, dentate: fls. with 5 petals and 10 ft. 4050. ACBOSTICHITM (derivation ohsctire). Polypodi&ce( ferns. Includes plants of great diversity offoliage, wliich are often referred to many genera. Serispread in a layer over the entire under surface of theleaf or of certain of the upper pinnae, rarely over bothsurfaces. Foliage rather coarse, the leaves simple orpinnate, rarely forked. All the 140 species are plants oftropical regions, two species growing in S. Fla. Somekinds are adapted to covering walls, columns, trunks oftree ferns, etc. The kinds with long fronds are excellentfor hanging baskets. As all kinds require an abundanceof water at the roots, the compost should be very A mixture of two parts fibsphagnum, and one of coalmended. For general culture, see Ferns. The following species are cult, in Amer.: aliNo. 15; aureum, 17; cervinum, 14; confonne, 7; ACROSTICHUM turn, 9; flaceidum, 8; gorgoneum, 11; lomarioides, 18;muscosum, 3; nicotiansBfolium, 16; osraundaceum, 19;peltatum, 20; pilosum, 5; reticulatum, 10; scandens, 12;simplex, 6; sorbifolium, 13; squamosum, 2; villosum, 1;Tiscosum, 4. A. Iivs. simple, less than 2 in. wide; veins free. (Elaphoglossum.) B. Surface of Ivs. densely scahj throughout. 0. Texture thin, flaccid. 1. vaWsuin, Swz. Fig. 27. Sterile Ivs. 6-9 in. long ;fertile Ivs. scarcely more than half as large, both withabundant slender, dark-brown scales. Mex. and W. Ind
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