. 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. CARTOPTEEIS CASIMIROA 255 one segment larger and fringed; stamens 4, asserted; fr. separating into i somewhat winged nutlets. About 6 species in E. Asia. Free-flowering, small shrubs, very- valuable for their late blooming season ; not hardy north; even if well protected they will be killed almost to the ground
. 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. CARTOPTEEIS CASIMIROA 255 one segment larger and fringed; stamens 4, asserted; fr. separating into i somewhat winged nutlets. About 6 species in E. Asia. Free-flowering, small shrubs, very- valuable for their late blooming season ; not hardy north; even if well protected they will be killed almost to the ground, but the young shoots, springing up freely, will flower profusely the same season. They require well-drained and sandy soil and sunny position ; if grown in pots, a sandy compost of peat and leaf soil or loam will suit them, and they will flower in the green- house until midwinter. Prop, readily by cuttings of half-ripened wood in summer or fall under glass, and by seeds sown in spring. Mastacinthua, Schauer (C. incdna, Miq. C. Sinensis, Dipp.). Fig. 379. Suffruticose, 1-5 ft.: Ivs. petioled, ovate or oblong, coarsely serrate, pubescent above, grayish tomentose beneath, 2-3 in. long : cymes pe- duncled, dense-fld.; fls. small, violet-blue or lavender- blue. China, Jap. 32:2. 6799. 1892:324. 19:273. II. 21:149. Mn. 5:5. S. H. 2, p. 89.—Known in the nursery trade as "Blue ; There is also a new variety with white fls. C. IZongttlica, Bunge. Lvs. lanceolate, almost entire : cymes with fewer but larger fls. 1872:450. Alfked Rehdee. CAKYOTA (old Greek name). Palmdcece, tribe^rece«. Fish-tail Palm. Spineless, monocarpic palms, with tall, stout, ringed halms, at length bearing suckers. Lvs. disposed in an elongated terminal fringe, ample, twice pinnately divided ; segments dimidiate-fiabelliform, or cuneate, entire, or split, irregularly dentate, plicate, folded back in the bud : midnerves and primary nerves flabellate : pet
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