. 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. ARISARUM ARISTOLOCHIA 95 TUlgire, Targ. {Arum Arisdrum, Linn.). A foot high : Ivs. cordate or somewhat hastate, long-stalked : spathe purple, incurved at the top.âHas many forms and many names. Can be grown in the open with pro- tection. AEISTOLOCHIA (named for supposed medicinal vir- tues). Aristo/ochidcece. B
. 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. ARISARUM ARISTOLOCHIA 95 TUlgire, Targ. {Arum Arisdrum, Linn.). A foot high : Ivs. cordate or somewhat hastate, long-stalked : spathe purple, incurved at the top.âHas many forms and many names. Can be grown in the open with pro- tection. AEISTOLOCHIA (named for supposed medicinal vir- tues). Aristo/ochidcece. Birthwobt. Many species of ti'opical and temperate regions, remarkable for the very odd- shaped fls. The corolla is want- ing, but the calyx is corolla-like, tubular, variously bent, and com- monly tumid above the ovary ; stamens commonly G, short and aduate to the style (Fig. 140). Mostly woody twiners, the gi'eat- er part of them known to cult, â¢only in warm glass-houses. Many species are evergreen. The ten- der species are cult, for the strik- ingly irregular and grotesque fls. Monogr. by Duchartre in De- â CandoUe's Prodromus, Vol. 15, Partl(lS64). L. H. 139. Flower of Dutchman's Pipe, Aristolochia macr^phylla. Showing the ovary at a, and the swelling of the calyx-tube at 6. Natural size. The best known representative of this genus is Aris- tolochia ntacfophyUa (or A, Sipho), the "Dutchman's Pipe," than which there is no better hardy climbing vine for shade or screen purposes. No insects or other trou- bles seem to mar its deep green foliage, for which it is most valued, as the fls. are small, siphon-shaped, and inconspicuous, in early spring soon after the Ivs. are foi-med. There are many tropical Aristolochias, the fls. 'Of some of them being of extraordinary size, structure, and odor, but they are rarely seen on account of the last â¢characteristic, the odor being so suggestive of putridity as to make its proximity apparent to all, and even to â¢dec
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