. 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. 137. Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum (X M). lan;?eolate pointed Ifts.: spadix long-pointed and pro- jecting beyond the greenish spathe : scape much shorter the leaf. Low grounds in E. Amer. —Occasionally .grown in borders and 138. Aristolochia macrophylla. covered by the arching purplis
. 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. 137. Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum (X M). lan;?eolate pointed Ifts.: spadix long-pointed and pro- jecting beyond the greenish spathe : scape much shorter the leaf. Low grounds in E. Amer. —Occasionally .grown in borders and 138. Aristolochia macrophylla. covered by the arching purplish spathe, Common in woods. D. or corm flattish and large, very acrid, often employed as a domestic remedy. Berries red and showy, ripening in early summer. Planted in a moist, shady place, the lvs. remain until fall ; but in exposed places they die down early in sum- mer. This and the last are very interesting native plants of easy culture, propagated by tubers and by seeds. !imbrid,tum, Masters. Fringed Calla. Leaf solitary, the petiole, a ft. or less high, sheathed below ; Ifts. broad- ovate and acuminate, short-stalked : scape as long as the petiole, bearing a large, purple-limbed, white- streaked, long-pointed spathe : spadix ending in a long and gracefully drooping, feather-like appendage. E. Ind. :689; III. 15:703. 7150. :59. — A handsome and striking pot-plant, blooming in sum- mer. Grow in rich soil. Dry off the tuber when the lvs. turn yellow after flowering, and keep dry in sand or earth until spring. Other species are: A. Lfts. 3, broad-ovate, acuminate: spathe small,purplish and streaked, arching over the short spadix : suggests A. triphyllum. Malacca. 7211. —A. concinjinm, Schott. Leaf solitary, with 10 or more lfts.: spathe colored, tailed. India. 5914.—A. curvdtum. Hook. =^A. tortuosum.—A. galeatum, N. E. Br. Leaf solitai-y, with 3 lfts.: spathe purple insige. India. G457.~A. Griff
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