. 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. OPUNTIA in diani., having a thick, grayish, scaly, unarmed barls: joints congested toward the ends of the larger branches, ovate to ovate-cylindrical, 2-8 in. long and often 2 in. thick, very fragile and tumid, easily becoming detached and taking root, bluish green, so
. 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. OPUNTIA in diani., having a thick, grayish, scaly, unarmed barls: joints congested toward the ends of the larger branches, ovate to ovate-cylindrical, 2-8 in. long and often 2 in. thick, very fragile and tumid, easily becoming detached and taking root, bluish green, somewhat glaucous: areo- IfB with white wool and bright straw-colored bristles; spines on young growth 5-8, increasing yearly until ultimately 30-50, finally deciduous, with loose, glisten- ing, white or straw-colored sheaths 1% in. or less long: tls. %-l in. wide, pink : fr. obovate to globose, light green, pendulous, in large, proliferous clusters, sorae- titnes .")0 in a single cluster. Southwestern U. S. and Ndith common "Cholla" of the Arizona plains, where it often becomes a fair sized tree and nota- ble for its formidable armor of barbed spines completely hiding the surface of the plant. Var. mamillElta, Coult. Differs in having fewer, shorter spines. '>2 Bigelovii, Engelra. An erect, compact plant, 4-6 ft. 1 11. h liu'hn, with fragile woody skeleton which li .1 - 11 t ipi. 11 ill loints of the first year's growth, the iiio^t li. ii~. I\ -.]iiiie covered and difficult to handle of tin \]ii In li (t] utiti'is Tomts readily detached and t Mill n- t 111 I il U liiirs n\ate, short elliptical to long nil ihi 111 il \Mih 1 lunded ends, readily breaking ti 11 III ] I ml t ikiii_'mot, pale green, fragile, tu- I ill 11 il II. â ~ tmiuintly 3-5 m. long and half as till k 11 I I I -. together, with white wool and pale \.ll \ 111 11 - ^ [lines 10-20, some very small, mcreas- II _' 111 1 mill 1 I- stems become older, straw colored, -
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