. Plant culture; a working handbook of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse. e during Spring or Autumn and replanted. ACIPHYLLA. New Zealand umbelliferous plants, with denserosettes of sharp-pointed leaves. In a young and flowerless stagethey are attractive, and may be used in Summer for squarrosa, sometimes called the Bayonet Plant, is very ornamen-tal. A. Colensoi forms a circular bush 5 or 6 feet in diameter, havingflowering stems 6 to 9 feet high. In the colder parts the plantsshould either be lifted and stored in a f
. Plant culture; a working handbook of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse. e during Spring or Autumn and replanted. ACIPHYLLA. New Zealand umbelliferous plants, with denserosettes of sharp-pointed leaves. In a young and flowerless stagethey are attractive, and may be used in Summer for squarrosa, sometimes called the Bayonet Plant, is very ornamen-tal. A. Colensoi forms a circular bush 5 or 6 feet in diameter, havingflowering stems 6 to 9 feet high. In the colder parts the plantsshould either be lifted and stored in a frame, or protected by acovering of some kind. Propagation. Both are raised from seeds sown during the lat-ter part of February. ACONITUM (Monkshood). The species are very numerousand have a wide geographical range. A. Napellus is the best known;unfortunately, it is one of the most poisonous of cultivated plants,but hurtful only when taken internally. Some of its varieties album, flowers white; longihracteatum, rich blue; A. white and lilac; deep purple. A. ochroleucum HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 167. ACONITUM i68 PLANT CULTURE and A. pyrenaicum have pale yellow flowers. A. Napellus and itsforms flower about mid-Summer. A. Fischeri, a pale blue flowerednative species, blooms late in Summer. In the warmer parts of thecountry, where the Delphiniums will not thrive, some of the Aconi-tums will be found to be pretty fair substitutes, as they thrivemoderately well where the sun is only allowed to strike themthrough a leafy shade. If the soil around them is given a mulch2 or 3 inches deep, to preserve moisture, they will flower all the bet-ter for it. Propagation. By division in Fall or Spring. ADONIS. The annual species, of which there are two, A,astivalis and A. autumnalis, are more commonly grown than theperennials, of which there are five. A. vernalis, A. pyrenaica andA. amurensis are very elegant species for borders or last named speci
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