. 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 . bby, 3-5 ft. tall, white-tomentose, bearing many straight but not very largeprickles: Ivs. mostly ovate in outline, subcordate, shal-low-lobed or angled, at some stages with an irregularwhite band along the margin due to the shedding of thetomentum on the body of the leaf (whence t
. 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 . bby, 3-5 ft. tall, white-tomentose, bearing many straight but not very largeprickles: Ivs. mostly ovate in outline, subcordate, shal-low-lobed or angled, at some stages with an irregularwhite band along the margin due to the shedding of thetomentum on the body of the leaf (whence the namemarginatum): fls. large, 1 in. or more across, whitewith blue veins or ribs, shallow-lobed, in few-fld. clus-ters, the calyx prickly: fr. 1 in. or more in diam., glo-bose or ovoid, drooping, prickly, yellow. Trop. 1928. 18. robiistum, H. Wendl. Vigorous herb or subshrub,3-5 ft., densely tomentose, prickly on stems and Ivs.,the stems winged: Ivs. very large, sometimes 1 ft. long,broad-ovate or ovate-elliptic in outline, with many pointedangular lobes extending one-third or less the depth ofthe blade, woolly beneath: fls. white, about 1 in. across,lobed, racemose : fr. globular, small, hairy, orange-colored. Brazil. 1863, p. 250; 1896, p. , useful for subtropical 2339. Solanum Pseudo-Capsicum (X J^). No. 8. 19. {S. ivarscewiczioldes,liort.).Strong, erect plant, 3-4 ft., usually with a strong cen-tral stem, densely rusty-tomentose and armed withmany short stout hooked or straight spines: Ivs. large,the blade often more than 1 ft. long, rather soft, tomen- tose or densely pubescent beneath, deeply several-lobed:fls. large, about 1]4 in. across, white, numerous: and shining, pale yellow. Probably SouthAmerican. 1865, p. 430; 1896, p. very strik-ing plant for subtrop-ical gardening and eas-ily raised from seed ina single season; half-hardy perennial.
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