. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GALIUM aro used to lighten the effect of bouquets of other fis., notably sweet peas, which can hardly be arranged with theirown foliage, and which in large masses are inclined to look heavy and lumpy. Gypsophilas, which are used for the same purpose, bloom later. They
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GALIUM aro used to lighten the effect of bouquets of other fis., notably sweet peas, which can hardly be arranged with theirown foliage, and which in large masses are inclined to look heavy and lumpy. Gypsophilas, which are used for the same purpose, bloom later. They have an equal infinity of detail, which baffles the eye to comprehend. The botanist's analysis of all this misty delicacy and airy grace is "fls. in axillary and t(.'riiiinal, trichotomous cymes and panicles. " He also declares that the Ivs. are really opposite, the intervening members of the whorls being stipules. Fig. 890. Galiums are annual or peren- nial herbs, with 4-angled, slender stems and small, white, green, yellow or purple fls.; corolla wheel-shaped, 4-lobed; stamens 4: styles 2. The following are peren- nials from creeping rootstocks, with white fls. in termi- nal panicles. A. Lvs. in 4^s : fruit hairy. borelile, Linn. Height K-IK ft.: stem rather firm, erect and slightly branched: lvs. lanceolate or linear, 3-ribbed, scarcely rough at the edges, often 1 in. long: petals with very short, incurved points. Native. AA. 'aore's: fr. smooth or siitjMhj granulated. HoUiigo, Linn. Stem 1-3 ft. long, more or less branched; lvs. obovate to oblong or linear, more or less rough at edges, always terminated by a little point: pet- als abruptly narrowed intoarelatively long point.— This is known in some places as "Baby's Breath,"although that name is also given to Gypsophilas (which see). Eu. Perennial. GALPHlMIA (anagram of Malpighia). MalpighiA- cem, an order of almost no horticultural value. This ge- nus includes a yellow-fld. shrub cult, in the e
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