. 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. 672. â Wild Aster, or Michaelmas Daisy. DAISY (i. e., day's eye, in allusion to the sun-like form of the flower). A name which properly belongs to the Bellis perennis of Europe, a low early - flowering composite, which, in its double foims (Pig. 669), is widely known as a garden plant (see ^eiiJs). The American
. 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. 672. â Wild Aster, or Michaelmas Daisy. DAISY (i. e., day's eye, in allusion to the sun-like form of the flower). A name which properly belongs to the Bellis perennis of Europe, a low early - flowering composite, which, in its double foims (Pig. 669), is widely known as a garden plant (see ^eiiJs). The American congener is B. in- tegrifolia, Michs., an annual or biennial, very like the Old World species, ranging south- westward from Kentucky; it is not domesticated. In N. America, the word Daisy is applied to many field com- posites, particularly to those of comparatively low growth and large flower-heads. Unqualified, the word is com- monly understood to mean Olirysanthemuvi Leucantlie- mum (Fig. 670), an Old World plant which has become an abundant field weed in the eastern part of the coun- try. This plant is also commonly known as the Ox-Eye Daisy, although in parts of New England it is known as Whiteweed, and the term Os-Eye is applied to Eudheckia Jiirta (Fig. 671), which has a yellow-rayed head. Kin to the Chrysanthemum Le^tcanthemum are the Paris Dai- sies, or Marguerites, of the conservatories (see Ghry- santhemum). The wild Asters (Fig. 672) are called Daisies, especially Michaelmas Daisies, in many parts of the country, particularly west of New York. Spring- flowering Erigerons also are called Daisies. The Swan River Daisy is Brachycome iberidifolia (Figs. 255, 256). The African Daisy is a species of Lonas. l_ jj_ ^ DAIB£BGIA _(N. Dalberg, a Swedish botanist, 1730 to 1820). Leguminisce. About 60 species of trees, shrubs, or climbers, belonging to tropical regions all over the world. One species only introduced to S. Calif., and most likely to prove of great interest as
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