Archive image from page 162 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer02bail Year: 1906 COMMELINA 357 COLUMN. A solid central body formed of stamens and styles grown together, as in orchids. COLUMNEA (after Columna or Colonna, Italian writer on plants, sixte
Archive image from page 162 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer02bail Year: 1906 COMMELINA 357 COLUMN. A solid central body formed of stamens and styles grown together, as in orchids. COLUMNEA (after Columna or Colonna, Italian writer on plants, sixteenth century). GesnerAcea. Tropical American shrubs and climbers, with widely gaping, showy fls. often 2 in. long: Ivs. opposite, nearly equal or widely unlike: fls. solitary or numerous, axillary, stalked or not, without bracts or with bracts in an involucre ; corollas scarlet, carmine or yellowish. Half a dozen species, mostly red or orange-Hd., are cult, abroad and may be known to a few fanciers at home, but none are advertised by the dealers. COLtTTEA { ancient (ireok name). Ligtimi- iiinfa'. Bladder Senna. Deciduous shrubs, with al- ternate, odd-pinnate Ivs.; Ifts. many, rather small: fls. papilionaceous, in axillary, few-fid., long-peduncled ra- cemes, yellow to brownish red : pod inflated, bladder- like, many-seeded. About 8 species in the Mediterra- nean region to Himal. Ornamental free-flowering shrubs of rapid growth, with pale green or glaucous foliage and yellow or brownish red fls. during summer, followed by large, usually reddish-coloring and decorative pods. They grow in almost any soil, but prefer a tolerably dry and sunny position ; not quite hardy north. Prop, by seeds sown in spring or by cuttings of mature wood in- serted in fall in sandy soil; rarer species and varieties are sometimes grafted on C. arhorescens in spring un- der glass. A. IIs. yellow: pod closed at the apex. arbcrscens, Linn. Pig. '>27. Shrub, to 15 ft.: Ifts. 9- 13, ellii'tic.
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