. 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. ine shoots, rooted umler a bell-glass in sandy iiitlom heat. The first species is grown in Florida, and U are procurable from southern California. The culti- ation of Cassava is now attracting much attention in •lorida. Glaziovii, Mull. Arg. Ceara Rubber Tree. Lvs. ^ng-petioled, peltate, deeply 3-5-pa
. 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. ine shoots, rooted umler a bell-glass in sandy iiitlom heat. The first species is grown in Florida, and U are procurable from southern California. The culti- ation of Cassava is now attracting much attention in •lorida. Glaziovii, Mull. Arg. Ceara Rubber Tree. Lvs. ^ng-petioled, peltate, deeply 3-5-palmately parted, or he upper entire; divisions entire, broad,ovate-lanceo- ite: fls. paniculate: bracts small. Brazil; extensively rown in Ceylon and India. —Its juice gives the Ceara ubber. utUissima, Pohl. Cassava, or JIanioo Plant. Bitter Cas- sava. Figs. 1368-G9. Roots Heshy, cylindrical, sometimes weighing as much as 30 pounds, and 3 ft. long, very poisonous: stems knotty, about 3 ft. high: lvs. long-petioled, not peltate, deeply 3-7-lobed ; lobes lanceo- late,entire: bracts small,entire: calyx glalirous outside, puberu- lent within, yellowish, 5-parted: filan)euts glabrous ; anthers short: capsule and ovary dis- tinctlv wing-angled. July. Bra- zil. B.:H. ex- tensively in the tropics, where the Cassava made from the roots is a staple food. Tapioca is made from the root-starch by drying it in pellets on heated plates. The poisonous juice is pressed out in preparation or rendered harmless by heating. palmita, var. Aipi, Mlill. Arg. (J/. J(/.(, Pohll. Sweet Cassava. Closely related to the last, but the root more red-. dish colored and non-poisonous: anthers elongated: capsule only angular above, not winged. Brazil. —Used as the last, but not so extensively. J. B. S. Norton. The cultivation of Cassava is of the simplest descrip- tion in the West Indies. A piece of the stem, 2 or 3 feet long, is planteil in somewhat sandy ground and left to its fate, with
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