. 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. blooming in spring andsummer. Heads radiate, the ray-fls. pistillate, and thedisk-fls. perfect, but some or all of them sterile: invo-lucre campanulate or turbinate, of appressed and imbri-cated bracts: pappus of soft capillary bristles: akenesoblong or fusiform, narrowed above, 5-nerved. The onlyspecies in the Amer. tra
. 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. blooming in spring andsummer. Heads radiate, the ray-fls. pistillate, and thedisk-fls. perfect, but some or all of them sterile: invo-lucre campanulate or turbinate, of appressed and imbri-cated bracts: pappus of soft capillary bristles: akenesoblong or fusiform, narrowed above, 5-nerved. The onlyspecies in the Amer. trade is C. tomentdsa, Vent.,of and S. Of this the .scapf is 1 ft. or loss high, andthe heads are purple-rayed: lvs. or lanceolate,entire or nearly so, rather Thick, wititi- toinentose be-neath. Introduced as a bord. r [daut. CHABD (ch pronounced as in charge). A form of theplant (Beta vulgaris) which has produced the commonbeet. Often known to horticulturists as Beta Cycla. CHARD See Beet and Beta. The beet plant has given rise to twogeneral types of varieties: those varieties with thickenedroots (the beet of America, the beet-root of Europeanliterature); and those with large and pulpy or thickenedleaves (but whose roots are small and woody). The lat-. 422. Chard, or Sea-Kale ter type is known under the general name of leaf-beets may be ranged into three sub-groups:(1) common or normal leaf-beets, or spinach beets, inwhich the leaf-blade is large and pulpy, and is used asspinach is; (2) Chard, in which the petiole and midribare very broad and thick (Fig. 422); (3) ornamentalbeets, of which the foliage is variously colored. Chard is of the easiest culture. Seed is sown inspring, as for common beets. The broad petioles, orChards, may be gathered from midsummer until broad white stalks or ribs are used as a pot-herli;and, if desired, the leaf-blades may be cooked with dish is usually more attractive, however, if only theChards
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