. 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. (old classical name). Crticifero!. Prob-alily 100 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs,natives of temperate regions of Europe, Africa, andAsia. Petals and stamens 4: pod long, beaked : seedsnot winged (Figs. 258, 259). Includes all the mustards,cabbages, turnips, and the like ; and to these plants thereader sh
. 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. (old classical name). Crticifero!. Prob-alily 100 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs,natives of temperate regions of Europe, Africa, andAsia. Petals and stamens 4: pod long, beaked : seedsnot winged (Figs. 258, 259). Includes all the mustards,cabbages, turnips, and the like ; and to these plants thereader should refer ntlicr information. In common witli iimrly all culTivated plants, espe-cially those wbicli arr ] theBrassicas have re-ceived too little ]! fioiii ijiitauists. The inevita-ble outcome of such inglect or of any superficial studyis a reduction of species, and in this direction Brassicahas suffered greatly. It is usually confusing to reducetypes. The most perplexing species in our manuals arethose which contain the greatest number of old typesi names. It is true that this is supposed to origin is lost, and perspicuity demands that they be keptdistinct in a horticultural treatise. The confusion into which our Brassicas have fallen is. Flower of Mustard. be primarily due to the va-riation of the species orgroups, but it is often to be chargedto superficial study or insiterial. Our manuals contain too fewrather than too many species ofBrassica ; at all events, the miscel-dumping of rutabagas, tur- Brassiea cnmpesfris is unnatural,and, therefore, unf(.)rtuuthe best presentations of the true259. Pod or sdiQue Brassicas is that of De CandoUesof Mustard—Brassica Prodromus, as long ago as 1824 (alsoiuncca (X2). in Trans. Lond. Hort. Soc. vol. 5,and in Systema, 2: 582-607), and thefollowing scheme closely follows that outline. Someof the forms which are here kept separate as species maybe derived from their fellows, but the evidence of such
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