. 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. 2004 ZAUSCHNEKIA %-2 ft.: Ivs. lineiir to ovate, 14-1% in. long, glabrous, pubescent or tonitntose: Hs. scarlet or vermilion, tbe trumpet-shaped calyx IJ-a in. long: calyx-lobes ovate; petals obcordate, spreading: fr. 4-valved, imperfectly 4-loculed. B. M. ZEA the ear are both lart'i-r tlKin the Sweet or Flint
. 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. 2004 ZAUSCHNEKIA %-2 ft.: Ivs. lineiir to ovate, 14-1% in. long, glabrous, pubescent or tonitntose: Hs. scarlet or vermilion, tbe trumpet-shaped calyx IJ-a in. long: calyx-lobes ovate; petals obcordate, spreading: fr. 4-valved, imperfectly 4-loculed. B. M. ZEA the ear are both lart'i-r tlKin the Sweet or Flint Corns. The color of the kt in. N \ ai i. ~. ihc rhief color varieties being white, yellow, ml . .. tin- latter mottled wilh red; red varieties an '"Miiimih. but red ears occa- sionally occur in all \ :u i. in-. Flint Corn (Z. i,nl,t,ula, .Stuit. |. Kernel with horny endosperm enveloping a starchy or floury portion, this being hard and flinty and with no dent at ape.\. Kars smaller and rows fewer (often K) than n the Dent Corn. Color of kernel white, yellow, red, flue, and variegated. Commonly cultivated through the lorthern portions of our country and in Canada, where hi" seasons are too short for Dent Corn. Has been ,'niwn as far north as ."jO". Soft Corn IZ. .UHv/.i.,,,, without. 2772 Indian Corn by a long, shallow furiow on a single spike of Euchl expense of the otln r p ii bracts which i n 1 ' Fig 277) Th Dent or Fiel i i bulk of the(.. Ill , i , i i it l,f longs to this sul I li I I I \ \ \ fin presence of hoiu\ oi (uiulous i I | mi i' n„ the sides of the grain while the st ir In n i | iin \t. mis to the summit In dning the II mm | iti n hunks morethan the hoin\ and this gn i n t ih 1 ui it tin .summit Both the horny and the floui\ poition of the endosperm consist of starcli but the foimer is more compact. The varieties \arj greatly m size of plants and appearance of the ear, but in general the plant and spike of Maize The
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