. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. HELIANTHUS broad, short-peduncled ; rays 15-25, about 1% in. long, showy. Prairies, Ind., 111., Wis. Gn. 45:im0. 31:204. —A desirable Helianthus. The garden form N. semiptenus is better than the type. Resembles t
. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. HELIANTHUS broad, short-peduncled ; rays 15-25, about 1% in. long, showy. Prairies, Ind., 111., Wis. Gn. 45:im0. 31:204. —A desirable Helianthus. The garden form N. semiptenus is better than the type. Resembles tall-grow- ing forms of H. rigidus, but disk yellow. 20. Calif6micu3, DC. Stem 3-8 ft. high. Ivs. lanceo- late, rough ou both sides: fls. loosely paniculate. Calif. — Most of the plants grown under this name are a gar- den form of £f. anHUiis. 21. hirsiitus, Raf. Stem 2-t ft. high, densely hairy: Ivs. ovate-lanceolate, thick, very rough, pubescent and pale beneath: fls. several, 2-3 in. across. July-Oct. Dry soils. Pa. to Ga., west to Wis. and Texas. 22. trachelifdlius. Mill. Resembles strumosus, but stem ami usually rough-hairy and Ivs. thinner, green on both sides. Aug., Sept. Dry soil. Pa. to Wis. S. W. Fletcher. HELICHRtSUM (Greek forsim and gold; referring to the (lower heads). Compdsitw. ^ya., Elichrtjsum. Nearly 300 Old World herbs or shrubs, mostly African and Australian. Some of them are grown for everlast- ings, being, with Helipterum, amongst the most impor- tant plants for that purpose. Easily grown as hardy annuals in any garden soil. Fls. of two kinds, the out- ermost ones with pistils only: involucre dry and chaff- like, the stiff overlapping scales glabrous, often colored: heads large, terminating the branches, normally yellow, but now varying into many colors in long-cultivated forms. A. I/vs. oblong or narrow ; grown for everlastings. B. Heads large, solitary. Ijracte&tum, Andr. Fig. 1030. Stout annual, lK-3ft. tall, somewhat branched, the te
Size: 1199px × 2083px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1906
