. 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. 1848:121. Var. compActus. Dwarf, and valuable for pot culture. Gt. 47, p. 635. A 5-petaled form is also recorded. 8;116. COOPERIA from seed : stem trailing or twining, 4-5 ft. long : fls. golden. Valuable as a greenhouse climber and for hanging baskets.—Not sufficiently described for identi- fication.
. 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. 1848:121. Var. compActus. Dwarf, and valuable for pot culture. Gt. 47, p. 635. A 5-petaled form is also recorded. 8;116. COOPERIA from seed : stem trailing or twining, 4-5 ft. long : fls. golden. Valuable as a greenhouse climber and for hanging baskets.—Not sufficiently described for identi- fication. C. althaoliUs. Linn. {C. Italicus. Roem. & Schidt.). Stem prostrate, scarcely twining: upper Ivs. pedatifld; lower ovate-. »f 544. Convolvulus tricolor. cordate, crenate, silverj- region. O. onicnsis, Linn. Sleml Hort., not li Stove evergri-i reddish purpi' Medit 1864:111.— 1-3 ft. long, gla- COONTIE of 1 Fla i Zat. C00F£RIA (after Joseph Cooper, English gardener). AmarxiUid&ceai. A genus of only two or three species of tender, bulbous plants from Texas, with the habit of Zephyranthes but night-blooming (which is anomalous in the order), and with erect anthers, while tliose of the latter are versatile. The fls. are fragrant, solitary, 2 in. or more across, waxy-white, tinged red outside, and more or less green within. The Ivs. appear with the fls. in summer. They are long, narrow, flat and twisted. The bulbs should be taken up in autumn and stored during the winter in dry soil. Culture easy and like Zephyranthes. Lately a new and little-known plant has been offered by the trade, C. Obenvetteri, with "bright green" fls. A. JVeck of bulb short: perianth tube long. Drummondli, Herb. Evenino Star. Bulb roundish, 1 in. thick, with a short neck : Ivs. narmwly linear, erect, 1 ft. long : peduncle J^-1 ft. long; spathe lK-2 in. Ion-, i! . i .i tin- tip: perianth tube 3-5 In. long; limt , i n I iu. white, tinged w
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