. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Fig. 157.—PLATYCERIUM ALCICORNE. Bilbergia nudicaulis, which was hung upfrom the roof of a stove, flowered in oneseason, then produced a shoot which in thefollowing year flowered; and so the process ofshoot and flower-forming went on year afteryear, the plant being rootless and feeding onthe water collected between the leaves. Whenfirst hung up it was not more than i foot long,but it had attained at the date of the report to. 3.—BILBERGIA NUDICAULIS. 2 feet 6 inches, and was then producing shootsat b
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Fig. 157.—PLATYCERIUM ALCICORNE. Bilbergia nudicaulis, which was hung upfrom the roof of a stove, flowered in oneseason, then produced a shoot which in thefollowing year flowered; and so the process ofshoot and flower-forming went on year afteryear, the plant being rootless and feeding onthe water collected between the leaves. Whenfirst hung up it was not more than i foot long,but it had attained at the date of the report to. 3.—BILBERGIA NUDICAULIS. 2 feet 6 inches, and was then producing shootsat both ends. Space will not allow us at present to commentlonger on these facts ; but they will excite theadmiration of those who love to probe theworkings of Nature, and supply matter for thethoughtful practitioner to ponder over and turnto advantage. December 29, 1877.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 807 THE GENUS AGAVE. {Concluded from p. 781.) Series IV. — Carnoso-herbace.^. — Leavesalmost herbaceous in texture, dying down annually,often spotted with brown, the tip not at all pungent, themargin entire, or at most minutely serrulate. Flowersfew, solitary, laxly spicato-racemose — Manfreda^Salisb. These form a most distinct group, worthy, I think, Notes, p. 13 ; Fenzi in Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 1194,t. 273.—Acaulescent. Leaves 12—20 in a rosette, lan-ceolate, spreading-, J —i foot long, %~i inch broadbelow the middle, narrowed slightly downwards, glau-cous green, deeply channelled, mottled on both sideswi
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