. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . y, orna-mental trees. Other genera are: Entelea, Luehea,Grewia (with some half-hardy species), and Sparman
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . y, orna-mental trees. Other genera are: Entelea, Luehea,Grewia (with some half-hardy species), and Sparmannia. 137. Malvaceae (from the genus MaUou\ alteredfrom the Greek, in alliLsion to the mucilaginous emol-hent f|ualitiesj. Mallow^ Family. Fig. 37. Herbs,shrubs or trees, with alternate, simple, usually pal-mately veined lcav(«: flowers bisexual, regular; ., often united, valvate, fr(^(|uently bracteolate at ; petals o, convolute, often adnate to the stamens;stamens very numeroas, hypogynous, the filamentsunited into a tube (monadelphousj, anthers 1-eelled,pfjllen spiny; ovary superior, 2 to many-celled, rarelyl-<:elled; ovules in each cell 1 to many; styles and stig-niae usually as many as the carpels: fruit a capsule orseparating into drupelets, very rarely fleshy. The Mallows include 39 genera and from SCO to900 .species, distributed over the whole earth, exceptin the arctic zone, but most abundant in The Malvacex are related to the. 37. : 1. Malva, a, flower; b, floral diagram: c, fniit;d, cross-section fruit. 2. Hibiscus, flower. Bombac.\: , flower. : 4. Theobroma, flower. ; 5. Dilleoia, flower. Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae. From the former they aredistinguished by their 1-celled anthers and rough pollen,and from the latter by their monadelphous stamens aswell as the 1-celled anthers. The hollyhock-hke floweris characteristic. The foUage, stems, and seeds of most Malvaceae con-ta
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