. 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. 1363. ""he hypocotyl en'.arging. MANIHOT shores. In the quiet recesses of the Mangrove swamp aquatic and ampliibious lifetinds refuge. The shell-fish cling to the trunks and at low tide they are exposed, tlius giving rise to the stories of the early explorers that oysters grow on trees. All this will
. 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. 1363. ""he hypocotyl en'.arging. MANIHOT shores. In the quiet recesses of the Mangrove swamp aquatic and ampliibious lifetinds refuge. The shell-fish cling to the trunks and at low tide they are exposed, tlius giving rise to the stories of the early explorers that oysters grow on trees. All this will recall the accounts of tlie banyan tree, and there are wild fig trees (the banyan is a tig) in Florida and southward which behave in a similar way. It seems strange that roots should strike out into the air, but the reader may have observed the "brace roots" near the ground on Indian corn; and many plants, as the ivy and trumpet-creeper, climb by means of MANIHOT (native Brazilian name). ISiiphorhidcfiP. About 80 species of perennial herbs or shrubs, with milky juice, occurring in tropical America, mostly in Brazil. Nearly always smooth and blue-green colored; Ivs. alternate, entire or palmately lobed or divided: rts. large for tlio or-l^r, racemose or paniculate, terminal or axilhiry, uhuhim rous; calyx imbricate in the bud, campanulate or rndiatf. often petal-like, 5-lobed; petals none; stamens fnw, in 2 whorls in the angles of tlie disk: cupsules 3-celled, 3-seeded. Not much grown in greenhouses. L-'xcept in tovms of M. jui/nm/ft. Tho eco- uoniir spiM'irs nuiy do woll in the tropical parts of the Unilrd Stains, wlien^ they ;ire being introduced. Ac- cni'diui;- 1o tlicy are bpst growTi in peat loam and sand, and pro[>agated liy cultings of young, rather. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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