Archive image from page 62 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer03bail Year: 1906 speare's time Gilliflower has usually meant either wall- flowers or stocks, as explained under Clierianthus and Matthiola. GINGER. Zingiber officinale. Wild Ginger. Asa- ru
Archive image from page 62 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer03bail Year: 1906 speare's time Gilliflower has usually meant either wall- flowers or stocks, as explained under Clierianthus and Matthiola. GINGER. Zingiber officinale. Wild Ginger. Asa- rum Canadense. GlNKGO(Chinesename). Conlfera, tribe Tdxea. One tree, with wedge-shaped Ivs., fls. small and mostly dicecious. Pistillate fl. solitary, the single naked ovule ripening into a drupe. Staminate fls. in slender, loose catkins. 910. Qinkero fruit and i size. biloba, Linn. {Salisburia adlantifdUa, Smith) Ginkgo. Maidenhair Tree. KewTkee. Figs. 909, 910, A tall, spiirsely branched, usually slender tree, attain ing a height of 60-80 ft.: Ivs. 3-5, clustered, fan shaped, divided at summit, with thickened margin striated on both sides with numerous parallel veins: fls dioecious; male catkins slender, stalked; females on long footstalks, in pairs, of which one usually aborts fruit a drupe, consisting of an acrid, foul-smelling pulp surrounding a smooth, angular oval, cream-colored, thin shelled, sweet-kerneled nut. Northern China. 10, p. 119. :205, 2G9. 1:175. 12:268 Gng. 6:194. Introduced to America early in the century, and gen- erally successful on good soil in the eastern states as far north as eastern Massachusetts and central Michi gan and along the St. Lawrence river in parts of Canada. Of special value for solitary planting to secure picturesque effects. Coiisiilrriilily planted in Washing- ton, , where it is gmwiTig in esteem as a street tree because of its upright habit and freedom from insect injury. Easily propagated from s
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