. 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. shown in Fig. plants are thus affected,take cuttings and burn the oldplants, and either bake orfreeze the soil in which theygrew. The garden varieties of (.?lens are legion. Theseare the issue of , Benth.,of Java( 4754. 27:377;35:46; 39:164. : 2287-8). This is asoft perennial herbgrowing
. 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. shown in Fig. plants are thus affected,take cuttings and burn the oldplants, and either bake orfreeze the soil in which theygrew. The garden varieties of (.?lens are legion. Theseare the issue of , Benth.,of Java( 4754. 27:377;35:46; 39:164. : 2287-8). This is asoft perennial herbgrowing 2-3 ft. high,branched: lvs. ovate,or broad at base aacuminate, sharply a:regularly toothed,colored with yellow, dull redand purplish. An extreme formof this is var. VerschaH^ltii,Lem. tC Verschaffeltii, Lem.),Fig. 519, which is more robustand branchy, thebrilliantly colored,not acuminate, trunccordate at base, and irregularlycut-dentate,with rounded teeth,giving the margin a crispy ef-fect (I. H. 8:293). In some 58- A Coleus attackedforms, the lvs. are laciniate. by root-galls. C. thyrsoideus. Hook., is a recent novelty, but is not yet in theAmer. trade. Unlike the other well known species, its foliage Isnot brilliantly colored and its flowers are conspicuous. Tender. shrub. 2-3 ft. high: stems pubescent: Ivs. cordate, coarsely cre-nate, lower ones 7 in. long: fls. blue, in racemes which contain asmany as 18 forking cymes with about 10 fls. in each. H B ^ Z^ ^ 519. Coleus Blumei,COLIC-EOOT. Aletris far . Verschaffeltii COLLAEDS. A kind of kale. In the south, a form ofthe plant known as Georgia Collards is much grown fordomestic use and the southern market. The plant growsto 2-3 ft. high and forms no head, but the central form a kind of loose rosette. These tender eaten as a pot-herb, as all other kales are. Fig. 295,page 199, shows a Georgia Collard, although the rosetteis not well marked. The seeds may be started in aframe under glass, or in a seed
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