. 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. 45. Agave Americana, as commonly grrown in greenhouses. AGAVE (Greek, agauas, admirable). AmarylliddcecB. Important decorative and economic plants from hot American deserts, the most familiar of which is A. Americana, the Amekican Century Plant. St. short or wanting : Ivs. mostly in a close rosette, mostly stif
. 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. 45. Agave Americana, as commonly grrown in greenhouses. AGAVE (Greek, agauas, admirable). AmarylliddcecB. Important decorative and economic plants from hot American deserts, the most familiar of which is A. Americana, the Amekican Century Plant. St. short or wanting : Ivs. mostly in a close rosette, mostly stiff and more or less fleshy, persisting from year to year, the margins mostly armed with teeth and the apex tipped with a more or less pungent spine : fls. in spikes or panicles; perianth 6-parted, more or less funnel-shaped; stamens 6, mostly long-exserted ; style 1 ; ovary infe- rior, 3-celled ; seeds numerous, flat, thin, triangular, black. Some species flower but once and die, others oc- casionally, while others flower from year to year. The number of species is about 150, although more than 325 have been described. One of the largest collections is at Kew, where there are 85 named species. The largest collections in the United States are at the Botanical Garden of Washington and the Missouri Botanical Gar- den, where there are about 75 species each. Amateurs often cultivate a greater number of species than are de- scribed in this account. Agaves are essentially fanciers' or amateurs' plants. This noble group of plants has never received the attention it deserves, and yet no ge- nus of plants in America furnishes so many suitable decorative plants. Sir Joseph Hooker places it next to the palm and aloe, but the former is a great family of 1,100 species. While in the United States we think of the Agaves only as decorative plants, yet in Mexico, their native home, they are the most useful of plants. Many species furnish fiber, others soap, while still others produce the two grea
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