. 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. IG32 SCILLA several small, erect blue lis. in a short, terminal raceme, almost flattened into a corymb: perianth segments scarcely above :.l lines long, spreading. Spring. A plant occurring in stony and sandy wastes near the sea in western Europe, reappearing farther east in Den- mark, on the Rhine and Sardinia
. 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. IG32 SCILLA several small, erect blue lis. in a short, terminal raceme, almost flattened into a corymb: perianth segments scarcely above :.l lines long, spreading. Spring. A plant occurring in stony and sandy wastes near the sea in western Europe, reappearing farther east in Den- mark, on the Rhine and John W. H,.\ 22''6 SLiUa Sibini-a I i) SCINDAPSUS (an old (Ireek name, transferred to these plants). Ardcect'. Climbing perennials, differing froai Blonstera in floral characters and in the long- petioled, , ovate-lanceolafr or ovate-acu- minate Ivs. Species 9 or 10. East Indies. Scindapsus comprises one popular and worthy w-armhouse plant, that known to gardeners as S. argyrcrus. For culture, follow directions given under Philodendron. pictus, Hassk. Internodes of the stem 3-4 in. long, a in. tliick; petioles l>4-2 in. long; blade 4-6 in. long, 2>.^-3M in. wide, one side half wide as the other, coriaceous, l)right green (drying black), obliquely ovate- cordate. Var. argryraeuB, Engler (S. argyrceus, Hort. Pbthos argyrcpus, Hort.), is the cult, form, with broad, deeply cordate leaf-blades which are spotted and blotched above with silvery white. Celebes, Philippines, • lava. etc. ^ 6^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954; Miller, Wilhelm, b. 1869. New York, Macmillan
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