. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. tory was a plant with a large spindle-shaped root which was supposed sometimes to become forked and resemble the human form. In this condition it was used as an aphrodisiac. The plant was also called Love-apple, and many superstitions about it still survive. The old he
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. tory was a plant with a large spindle-shaped root which was supposed sometimes to become forked and resemble the human form. In this condition it was used as an aphrodisiac. The plant was also called Love-apple, and many superstitions about it still survive. The old herbals abound in fanciful pictures of the Mandrake, one of which is reproduced in Fig. 1358. is sold in America and may be cult, in the hardy border for its folk-lore interest. M. autiimnalis is supposed by some to be the true Mandrake. Both are natives of the Mediterranean region. AI. caiilescens is found in the Himalayas. Mandragoras are nearly stemless, perennial herbs with thick roots and large, stalked, wavy-margined Its., the later ones being usually narrower and entire, and rather large fls. varying from whitish through bluish violet and purplish shades. The fls. are bell-shaped, about 5-cut, netted-veined and borne in clusters among the tufted Ivs. Calyx deeply 5-cut; sinus of the corolla induplicate between the lobes. oSficinilrum, Linn. {M. officinalis, NiU.). Mandrake. Lvs. ovate, the first obtuse, the rest acuminate; calyx teeth lanceolate, as long as the oblong berry. Woolson says it needs a shady place. 1897, p. 131. xV. M. MANDRAKE in America means the MayApple (Podo- phyllum) but the Mandrake of history is Mandragorci. MAN£TTIA (Xavier Manetti, of the botanic garden at Florence, born 1723). Biibiiiceie. This includes the common Manettia Vine, il. bicolar, which has scarlet, MANGIFERA tubular fls. an inch or more long, with 5 spreading yel- low tips. It is a twining plant, and is often trained to pillars and trellises both indoors and out, as i
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