. 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. nd coUeotc nurserymen 3,000 species and varieties, exclusive of tli« many gar- den forms that are distinguished chiefly by the color of their flowers. In use, the species and varieties of herbaceous peren- nials may be broadly separated three First, plants for
. 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. nd coUeotc nurserymen 3,000 species and varieties, exclusive of tli« many gar- den forms that are distinguished chiefly by the color of their flowers. In use, the species and varieties of herbaceous peren- nials may be broadly separated three First, plants for the garden that require the favorable conditions of a highly cultivated ground, and careful attention to attain perfection and to persist and increase from year to year. This would include many exotics, some native species and most of the horticultural varie- ties. Many of such species which would find a congenial place only in the garden have attractive flowers which are so fugitive that they can ouly be enjoyed on the plant. Other species which are suitable to cut flowers from can hardly be grown in the flower garden iu suffl- cient quantity to liberally meet the floral requirements of the home, and they should be grown in quantity in the kitchen garden or in a special cut-flower garden, for their crops of flowers. Included among plants of diffi- cult cultivation with fugitive flowers are the rock or alpine plants, many of which are offered in European catalogues but few of which will thrive here, and for such as will succeed more favorable conditions are usu- ally found in a well-drained border than in an artificial rockery. Second, plants for the shrubbery, having aggressive habits, which make them rather objectionable in the flower garden, but fit them to withstand successfully the crowding of shrubs. This class of plants will give va- riety and prolong the flowering season of shrub borders about lawns, and would be made up chiefly of strong- growing natives and a few of
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