. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1824 TOXYLON feeders ana rapidly deplete the soil. Hardy as far north as Massachusetts. A tree with deciduous, simple, alternate, petiolate, entire leaves and milky sap: branches, particularly the lower, beset with numerous straight, axillary tpines 2-3 in. long: fls.
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1824 TOXYLON feeders ana rapidly deplete the soil. Hardy as far north as Massachusetts. A tree with deciduous, simple, alternate, petiolate, entire leaves and milky sap: branches, particularly the lower, beset with numerous straight, axillary tpines 2-3 in. long: fls. minute, dioecious, apetalous, axillary, appearing in May to June, the staminate borne on the short spur-like branchlets of the previous year, racemose, pedicillate, pendulous; calyx 4-parted, with its segments valvate: stamens 4, the pistillate borne on branches of the cur- rent year, sessile, capitate; peduncle short, the 4-cleft calyx inclosing the sessile ovary: style simple, filiform, long and exserted: ovary superior, one-loculed; ovule solitary: fr. a dense aggregation of enlarged, fleshy ca- liees into a globular syncarp with a mammillate sur- face, light green or yellowish in color: syncarp 4-5 in. in diameter, falling as soon as ripe in the i. 2536. Osage OraneeâToxylon pomiferum (X 1-5) pomHerum, Raf. IMacliira ). Osage Orange. Fig. (i. Tree. 30-50 ft. high: Ivs. ovate to oblong - lanceolate. E. Kansas to N. Texas. Wood orange-colored. III. 16:693. 33:808, 809. 1896, p. 33 (). V. 4:37. Emil MiscHE. Before the advent of wire fences the Osage Orange was an extremely popular hedge plant, meeting general requirements better than any other plant suitable to our climate. It is used considerably, and where prop- erly attended to from the start makes a hedge in a short time of a fairly defensive nature. Most dealers in tree seeds keep seeds of the Osage Orange, and those who grow the plants procure the seed in spring, drilling i
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