. 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. 1322. Lucuma Rivicoa hairy plant, 1J^-2K ft. tall, branching as it matures: lvs. somewhat cordate or halberd-cordate, coarsely and irregularly toothed, stalked: fls. numerous, pink-purple, fragrant, in late spring or early .summer: pods about 2 in. long and somewhat na
. 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. 1322. Lucuma Rivicoa hairy plant, 1J^-2K ft. tall, branching as it matures: lvs. somewhat cordate or halberd-cordate, coarsely and irregularly toothed, stalked: fls. numerous, pink-purple, fragrant, in late spring or early .summer: pods about 2 in. long and somewhat narrower, very flat, rounded at the ends, tipped with the persistent style. Europe. 1857, p. 30. —Frequent in old-fashioned gardens. There is a recent form with handsomely variegated lvs.; also a white-flowered form. Annual and biennial, redivlva, Linn. Differs from the last in being per- ennial, the fls. smaller and lighter colored (often gray- ish purple), and the pod elliptic or lance-elliptic, and tapering to either end. Europe. —Less common and less valuable than the other. t. tt R LUNGWORT. Mertensia. LUPIHUS (from the Latin lupus, a wolf; because a crop of Lupines was supposed to destroy fertility). Legumi- nbsce. Lupine. A group of about 80 species mostly confined to western N. America, a few growing in eastern N. America and in the Mediterranean region. Most are annuals or herbaceous perennials, one species in cult, being shrubby. AH are showy plants with conspicuous flowers in terminal racemes, those of the species in cult, being mostly verticillate. The flowers are blue, white or yellow, or a union of these, papilionaceous and free-blooming. All are of easy cult, in any garden soil, except that they are said not to suc- ceed in soil containing lime. They are adapted to borders in masses, and to all places in which low - growing showy herbs would be found. Some make good bedding plants, others cut-flowers. They are propagated by seed, the peren- nials also by d
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