. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 742 Am B. Plant low and diffuse. 1. ^eai(!kriua,Cav.{,HoTt.). Flower-of- AN-HOUB. Bladder Ketmia. Trailing Hollyhock. Fig. 1054. A foot or 2 high, bushy-spreading, the main branches becoming prostrate, usu
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 742 Am B. Plant low and diffuse. 1. ^eai(!kriua,Cav.{,HoTt.). Flower-of- AN-HOUB. Bladder Ketmia. Trailing Hollyhock. Fig. 1054. A foot or 2 high, bushy-spreading, the main branches becoming prostrate, usually hispid-hairy: Ivs. 3-5-parted, the upper ones 3-parted, with the middle lobe much the largest, the lobes linear-oblong or some- times widening upwards, coarsely notched, the root-lvs. undivided: fls. solitary in the upper axils, opening wide in the sunshine but closing in shadow, 1-3 in. across, sulfur-yellow or white, usually with a brown eye ; pedicel elongating in fr., ami the calyx becoming much inflated. Cent. Afr. —An interesting annual, blooming freely throughout the hot weather of summer, and thriv- ing in any open, warm place. Seeds are usually sown where the plants are to stand. Excellent for rockwork. 2. Tridnum, Linn., to which the above species is usu- ally referred, has much wider and more spatulate and relatively shorter leaf-lol)es, which are round-toothed or lyrately lobed: Hs. smaller. Prom S. Eu. and Afr B M. 209.— Sometimes a weed about cult, grounds BB. Plant mostly tall, strict and stout. 3. SabdarlKa, Linn. (ff. lios/lta, Hort.). Ja maica Sokhel. Roselle. strong, 5-7 ft. high nearly glabrous, the stems terete and reddish root-lvs. ovate and undivided, the upper one- digitately 3-parted, the side lobes sometime* again lobed ; lobes lanceolate-oblong and ere nate dentate : fls. solitary and almost sessile in tht axils, much shorter than the long leaf-stalks, cal}\ and bracts red and thick, less than half the length of the yellow corolla. Old World
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