. 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. 1121. Iberis Gibralt: Int. 8. Gibraltarica, Linn. Fig. 1121. Lvs. wedge-shaped, obtuse, subciliate : outer fls. pink, inner ones white. Gibraltar. 124. Gn. 10:308. 1870:330. Un. 24, p. 549, same as 1885, p. 446. âThis is considered by some as the most striking and showy of the peren- nial kinds.
. 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. 1121. Iberis Gibralt: Int. 8. Gibraltarica, Linn. Fig. 1121. Lvs. wedge-shaped, obtuse, subciliate : outer fls. pink, inner ones white. Gibraltar. 124. Gn. 10:308. 1870:330. Un. 24, p. 549, same as 1885, p. 446. âThis is considered by some as the most striking and showy of the peren- nial kinds. It grows higher and more erect, with larger clusters and larger fls., but is less hardy than the others. This is much sought after, ami the stock in the nur- series is often not true to name. Var. h^brida is adver- tised. 9. umbellita, Linn. Lvs. lanceolate, acuminate, lower ones serrate, upper ones entire : fls. in the wild typically purplish, rarely white : pods acutely 2-lobed. Italy, Crete, Spain. 106.âThis is the common an- nual Candytuft with colored fls., the colors being more numerous and better fixed than in any other species. American trade names are vars. carminea, c4rnea, lila- cina and Diinnetti (/. Dunnettl, Hort.), the last being dark purple. Vars. rdsea, purpiirea and 41ba are adver- tised abroad, also vars. nknn, ptimila and hjbrida. Tall and dwarf forms of all the colors are pnocurable. 10. Tenoreina, DC. Lower lvs. obovate, narrowed at base: upper lvs. oblong-linear: fls. purplish or whitish: pods notched at apex. Naples. 2783. 18:1721. According to Baker ( 1868:711), this is the only perennial kind that is decidedly hairy. DeCan- dolle says the lvs. are puberulous. 11. Prtliti, Tineo. Lvs. glabrous, obovate-spatulate, entire or subdentate : fls. white: pods merely notched at apex. Sicily. Not advertised here, but cult, abroad. 12. sempirflorens, Linn. Lvs. wedge-shaped or spatu- late, obtuse, entire, glabrous: pods scarcely notched at
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