. 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. SPRAYING Literature, —To say that the literature of spraying is voluminous would but faintly describe the situation. Hardly an experiment station in the United States has failed to publish two or three times on this siibject. Many of them issue annual "spray ; The Divisions of Vegetable l^at
. 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. SPRAYING Literature, —To say that the literature of spraying is voluminous would but faintly describe the situation. Hardly an experiment station in the United States has failed to publish two or three times on this siibject. Many of them issue annual "spray ; The Divisions of Vegetable l^athologj' and Entomology. Department of Agriculture. Wasliington, D. C, have added a great number of bulletins to the general col- lection. One of the first American books, "Fungous Diseases," 1880, was written by F. Lamson Scribner, then of the Division of Veg. Pathology, Washington. Soon after appeared "Insects and Insecticides," and "Fungi and Fungicides," both by Clarence M. Weed. The most notable book which has appeared and the only complete monograph of spraying in existence was published in 1890, the author being E. G. Lodeman, then instructor in horticulture at Cornell University. Of the experiment stations aside from Washington, prominent in reporting field work, New York (Geneva and Cornell), Michigan, Delaware, California, Massachusetts and Ver- mont should be named, although many others have done well. Spraying, though not an American invention, is now distinctly an American practice by adoption and adaptation. John Craig. SPEEKELIA (.J. H. von Sprekelsen, of Hamburg, who sent the plants to Linnaeus). AmaryUid&ceo!. Jaco- bean Lily. A single species from Mexico, a half-hardy bulbous plant with linear, strap-shaped leaves and a hollow cylindrical scape bearing one large showy flower. Perianth strongly declined, tube none; segments nearly equal, the posterior ascending, the inferior concave and enclosing the stamens and ovary: bracts
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