. 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. D. fVliole plant white-woolly. 8. lanigerum, R. Br. Stems thick, creeping at the , but the tops erect and standing 2-5 ft. high, much branched: Ivs. narrow-lanceolate and more or less re- curved, acuminate, covered with down of the color of olcl silver: sheaths sh
. 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. D. fVliole plant white-woolly. 8. lanigerum, R. Br. Stems thick, creeping at the , but the tops erect and standing 2-5 ft. high, much branched: Ivs. narrow-lanceolate and more or less re- curved, acuminate, covered with down of the color of olcl silver: sheaths short, not ciliate: fls. small, red or copper-colored (varying to white), in racemes on slender forking peduncles, the stamens fi. and the akene flat and shining black. Tropics of Old World and, according to Hooker, of America. 1801, p. intro- duced for subtropical gardening, and not yet tested in the North. It probably will not endure northern winters even with good protection, but it is readily propagated each year from cuttings taken from plants carried over winter for that purpose. DD. Wliole plant green or grayish, not white-woolly. E. Fls. pink or red (sometimej varying to white), in erect spikes: plants grown for their flowers. 9. atflne, Don (P. Brunbnis, Wall.). Tufted gla- brous plant, with flowering stems 1 ft. or less high. from a woody prostrate rootstock: Ivs. mostly radical, oblanceolate to spatulate to lance-oblong: sheaths rather long, split or entire: fls. bright rose-red, in dense, erect, terminal spikes 2-3 in. long, the stamens 8, the akene trigonous. Himalaya, at elevations of 9,000 to 14,000 ft. excellent little plant for cool places, blooming in autumn. 10. amplexicaille, Don (P. oxifphijllum, Wall. P. spe- eidsiim, Meisn. P. miiltifUriim, Hort.), Mountain Fleece. Strong-growing tufted green-sterametl plant 2-3 ft. tall, from a woody rootstock: Ivs. cordate-ovate to cordate-lanceolate, short-petioled or clasping, the Y 1880 P
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