. 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. T^'^i'fyK' AKEBIA and peat. In Japan the fr., which is very showy, but with us rarely produced, is eaten, and the stems are much used for wicker-work. Prop, by seeds, by green- wood or hardwood cuttings, and also by root division and layers. quintlta, Decaisne. Figs 56, 57. Climbing 12 ft. or more: leaf- lets 5
. 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. T^'^i'fyK' AKEBIA and peat. In Japan the fr., which is very showy, but with us rarely produced, is eaten, and the stems are much used for wicker-work. Prop, by seeds, by green- wood or hardwood cuttings, and also by root division and layers. quintlta, Decaisne. Figs 56, 57. Climbing 12 ft. or more: leaf- lets 5, oval or oblong obovate, entire, emarginate, 1-2 m. long: fls. fragrant, the pistillate pur plish brown, about 1 m. broad, the staminate smaller, rosy purple in early spring: berry oblong, 3-5 in. long, dark purple with glau cons bloom, seeds black -Hard}, handsome, not attacked by insects or fungi. Very graceful and de sirable. China, Japan B R 33 28. 4864. 4 137 A « March, 1891, Figs. 5, 7, and plate 1853:141. 77 lobjlta, Decaisne. Leaflets 3 broadly ovate, coarsely crenate : fls. in longracemes, smaller than those of A. quinaia. Ja- pan, China 7485. 1891, p. 140. 1%.;:lem<xtifi,ha and A. quetrifdlia^ Sieb. & Zucc, are probably only va- rieties of this spe- Alfred I^ehder ALABAMA, HORXICUL- TUEE IN. Fig. 58. Commti cial horticulture has not as sumed the proportions in Ala bama that it has in the neigh boring southern states This must be largely due to acci dental causes, since in soils climate and transportation facilities the state presents conditions fully equal to any of the others. At present the <^^ most important horticultural centers are at the extreme " Akcbia vine northern and southern ends of the state. Mobile has long been known as one of the chief sources of supply for early vegetables for the northern and western markets, and the truck business is gradually extending from Mobile county to the adjoin- ing counties of
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