American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . ys are and carrots especial-ly,need the earliest attention. A Curious HerbaceousPlant — Tric yrtis. — Lastsummer Mr. Eugene A. Bau-man, the well-known Laud-scape Gardener and Floristof Rahway, N. J., sent us aspecimen of a plant underthe name of Triei/rtis pilosa;we had seen the samething in Mr. Peter Hender-sons collection, called It was such aweird, peculiar looking flow-er that we had the engrav-ing made which is here pre-sented. The plantgrows some two feet high,with hairy, light-green, strongly ri
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . ys are and carrots especial-ly,need the earliest attention. A Curious HerbaceousPlant — Tric yrtis. — Lastsummer Mr. Eugene A. Bau-man, the well-known Laud-scape Gardener and Floristof Rahway, N. J., sent us aspecimen of a plant underthe name of Triei/rtis pilosa;we had seen the samething in Mr. Peter Hender-sons collection, called It was such aweird, peculiar looking flow-er that we had the engrav-ing made which is here pre-sented. The plantgrows some two feet high,with hairy, light-green, strongly ribbed leaves,from the axils of which appear these singularlooking flowers, which are white, copiouslyspotted with purple. While we cannot com-mend the plant as beautiful in the popular sense, yet it is striking and curious in its ap-pearance, and deserves a place in a collectionof rare herbaceous plants. The genus Tricyrtisis a small one, and from Japan and it would be placed in one section ofthe Lily Family, near our native TKICYRTIS FILOSA. A Variety of the Sweet Gum Tree. The Liquidambar, Bilsled, or Sweet Gum, (Li-quidambiir Styraciflua\ is one of the finestamong our native deciduous trees, and we haveoften called attention to its merits as a valuable
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