. 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. with drooping, inflated buds and solitary, bell-shaped fls. more than 1 in. long and IX in. wide, dull yellow, Hushed and veined with dull purplish brown. Lvs. has- tate. 444. —Not in the Amer. trade. CANAEY-BIED FLOWER is a Tropceohim. CANARY GRASS is a Phalaris. CANAVALIA (an aboriginal name). Ijeguminbs
. 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. with drooping, inflated buds and solitary, bell-shaped fls. more than 1 in. long and IX in. wide, dull yellow, Hushed and veined with dull purplish brown. Lvs. has- tate. 444. —Not in the Amer. trade. CANAEY-BIED FLOWER is a Tropceohim. CANARY GRASS is a Phalaris. CANAVALIA (an aboriginal name). Ijeguminbsce. Trailing or twining herbs : fls. in axillary racemes, with bell-shaped, 2-lipped ealj'x, papilionaceous corolla, 9 stamens united and 1 free for most of its length : pods large and ribbed on edges. Several species, widely distributed in warm countries. ensiWrmis, DC. (C gladiitta, DC). Jack Bean. Chickasaw Lima. Figs. 197, 345. Grown in the south- ern states for stock, but the pods make passable snap beans when not more than 4 or 6 in. long. In warm countries it is a bushy plant, with little tendency to climb. The pods reach a length of 10-14 in., the walls being very hard and dense when ripe. The halves of the pod, when split apart, roll up spii'ally, often into an al- most perfect cylinder. The large The parts of the p Canna flower. (See Canna, p. 238.) part for agricultural pur- poses, the objection be- ing that little or none falls during the summer months. In the interior, where the precipitation is mostly in the shape of snow, it is so light that irrigation has to be resorted to. John Craig. CANAKlNA (from the Canary Islands). Campann- lAcece. Three species of tropical herbs closely allied to Campanula, hut with the tubes of the calyx and corolla grown together, and the floral parts in 6's. C. cam- panulata, Linn., is a tender plant from the Canaries,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced
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