. 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. 546 EKYXGIUM up in living-rooms. The plants mostly grow from 2-3 ft. high and head out in July and Sep. J. B. Keller ad- vises a light soil and sunny situation. E. amethi/stinum is probably the favorite. Meehan savs that A', planum is much visited by bees. The weak point Eryngiums is that they are slow to r
. 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. 546 EKYXGIUM up in living-rooms. The plants mostly grow from 2-3 ft. high and head out in July and Sep. J. B. Keller ad- vises a light soil and sunny situation. E. amethi/stinum is probably the favorite. Meehan savs that A', planum is much visited by bees. The weak point Eryngiums is that they are slow to recover tVi>iii lin- >]iM(k ut' divi- sion. This makes it difficult to w^.i L ii|. n -hk i, at home sufficient to make an effective f,'i"U|.. I>. I >. .\ ,ir, in his garden monograph uf tin- groii|i, i m h., i . .'iJi', says that the only safe \v-i\ i., in. -.â lin - i ll-! i- Kv seed. "Sow the SCi-,1 I-, 1 :, : . n ,!. aial place in a coldframe. Tli' â <. lioot-lv.'i. deeply notched at the base and merely toothed at the margin. 1. alpinum, Linn. Bracts 10-20, a little longer than the oblong heads. Alps. 1876, p. 113. 922. (Sn. 4 is a white variety. DD. Eoiil-lvs. lets deeply notched at the base, elsewhere more dissected. 2. Oliveriinum, Laroch. Bracts 10-12, more rigid and fewer-toothed than in £. alpinum: heads ovate. Orient. Gn. 45, p. 223. cc. IVumber of bracts 0-9. D. Hoot-lvs. deeply cut. 3. amethjstinum, Linn. Fig. 77G. Root-lvs. pinnatifld: bracts 7-8, few-toothed at the base, much longer than the globose heads. Eu. Gn. 46, p. 522, and 55, p. 454. E. coelestinum, a trade name unknown to our botanies, is the same thing, according to J. B. Keller. DD. Root-lvs. merely crenate-dentate. 4. gigant^um, Bieb. Root-lvs. deeply cordate: bracts 8-9: head ovate. Armenia. Gn. 46, p. 523. BB. Briii-ls as long as or shorter than the heads. c. Upper stem-lvs. 5-parted. 5. pl4num, Linn. Middle stem-lvs. stalkless, undi- vided:
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