. 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. 909. Ginkgo. speare's time Gillitlower has usually meant either wall- flowers or stocks, as explained under ChcrlaufJius and Matfhiola. GfNKGO(Chinese name). CoH(7t'r(F, tribe Tdiece. One tree, witli wedge-shaped Ivs., fls. small and mostly diae-cious. Pistillate d. solitary, the single naked ovule ripening int
. 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. 909. Ginkgo. speare's time Gillitlower has usually meant either wall- flowers or stocks, as explained under ChcrlaufJius and Matfhiola. GfNKGO(Chinese name). CoH(7t'r(F, tribe Tdiece. One tree, witli wedge-shaped Ivs., fls. small and mostly diae-cious. Pistillate d. solitary, the single naked ovule ripening into a drxipe. Staminate fls. in slender, loose GINGER. Zhu:ilh< offirhidJc. Wild Ginger. 910. Ginkgo fruit and seed. Natural size, biloba, Linn. {SaUshtiria adimitifolia, Smith). (iiNK;irallel vc-ins: fls. dioecious; niale catkins slender, stalked; females on long footstalks, in ]>riirs, of which one usually aborts: fruit a drupe, consisting of an acrid, foul-smelling pulp s\irrounding a snioolli, angular (.>val, cream-colored, thin- shellcd, swei-t-krri!ob-d nut. Nortliern China. 10,p. no. HI. ,":2f;.'. ^iV,"!. 1:17.'. 12:208. Gng. 0:194. Introduced to America early in the century, and gen- erally successful on good soil in the eastern states as far north as eastern Massachusetts and central Michi- gan and along the St. Lawi*ence river in parts of Canada. Of special value for solitary planting to secure picturesque effects. Considerably planted in Washing- ton, , where it is growing in esteem as a street tree because of its upright habit and freedom from insect injury. Easily propagated from seed, stratified in au- tumn ; varieties by budding and grafting. Several horticultural forms arc recognized, iu'duding Jur'niiata. peuditla and varirijutu. The foul odor uf tlie ripe fruits, which continue to mature and drop during a period of some weeks, con- stitutes the chief objection to the species as a street tree, or near dwellings,
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