Archive image from page 599 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 2792. Flower of the Ginger plant (X H)- has been added. Water should be given sparinglj'until the shoots have well developed, when they should have an abundance. They are also benefited by an occasional waterin
Archive image from page 599 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 2792. Flower of the Ginger plant (X H)- has been added. Water should be given sparinglj'until the shoots have well developed, when they should have an abundance. They are also benefited by an occasional watering with weak liquid manure water. Towards the end of summer the shoots will begin to mature, when the water supply should be di- minished, and as soon as the plants are ripened oft' the pots may be stored either under the greenhouse stages or in some other convenient place, where they should be kept almost dry for the winter. Zingiber may be taken as the typical genus of the sin- gular family Scitaminacea3, with its 36 genera and 450 species. Bentham and Hooker state that it is an extremely natural group, well marked in leaf as well as flower, and not connected with any other family by a single intermediate genus. The dis- tinguishing feature of the fam- ily largely resides in the sta- mens. Sometimes there are 5 stamens and a sixth im- perfect one; sometimes there is only one perfect stamen and all the starainodes are petal-like. The anthers are sometimes 2-celled, sometimes composed of one cell borne on the margin of the connective. In Zingiber and others the connective is produced into a long spur. Ge- neric characters: rhizome horizontal, tuberous: Ivs. ob-- long-lanceolate, clasping the stem by their long sheaths: spikes usually radical, rarely lateral or terii;inal on the leafy stem: calyx cylindrio, shortly 3-lobed; corolla- segments lanceolate, upper concave; lateral staminodes none Graduate to the lip; anther-cells contiguous; crest narrow, as long as the cells. Thirty
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