. 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 . SNAKE ROOT. Prenanthes. RATJWOLFIA (Leonhart Rauwolf, physician of Augs-burg, published a book in 1583 on his travels in theorient; often erroneously stated to be of the eighteenthcentury). Apocyndcece. About 40 species of tropicaltrees and shrubs with Ivs. in whorls of 3 or 4, rar
. 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 . SNAKE ROOT. Prenanthes. RATJWOLFIA (Leonhart Rauwolf, physician of Augs-burg, published a book in 1583 on his travels in theorient; often erroneously stated to be of the eighteenthcentury). Apocyndcece. About 40 species of tropicaltrees and shrubs with Ivs. in whorls of 3 or 4, rarelyopposite, and small fls. often borne in dichotomous ortrichotomoiis clusters. Calyx 5-cut or5-parted; lobesobtuse or acute: corolla funnel-shaped; tube cylindrical,dilated at the insertion of the stamens, usually con-stricted at the throat,devoid of scales;lobes 5 : disk cup-shaped or ring-shaped : carpels ofthe ovary 2, distinctor considerablygrown together: styleshort or long: ovulesin each carpel 2:drupes 2, distinct orconnate into a 2-stoned fruit, thestones 2-grooved or 2-cut: stones 1-seeded:seeds ovate; albumenfleshy, smooth, notruminate, rarely wrinkled. These plants are little knownhorticulturally. The only species in the American trade,-apparently, is B. Chinensis, Hort. Several years ago the 95. 2083. Tip or layer of Raspberry. undersigned received from the Botanical Garden at HongKong a few seeds of this small evergreen shrub. Theseeds germinated well and the plants grew rapidly,attaining a height of about a foot in a year. Duriiig thesummer of the second year the rather bushy jJlantsflowered well and bore a crop of shining red berrieswhich were very conspicuous throughout the well grown and bushy the plant is quite orna-mental, its habit being dense and the color of itsleaves dark green. The flowers are white, and areborne in dense trusses at the extremity of each an individual flower does not make much show,the plant is very ornamental
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