. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . of hardy or tender peren-nial, creeping herbs mostly from thetropical regions, with alternate ortufted roundish, long-petioled Ivs. andyellow, orange, or red fls. solitarj onaxillary or fascicled pedicels: calyx 4-5-cleft; corolla subrotate, with a veryshort tube, 5-8-cleft; stamen
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . of hardy or tender peren-nial, creeping herbs mostly from thetropical regions, with alternate ortufted roundish, long-petioled Ivs. andyellow, orange, or red fls. solitarj onaxillary or fascicled pedicels: calyx 4-5-cleft; corolla subrotate, with a veryshort tube, 5-8-cleft; stamens usuallyequal to the number of corolla-lobes;anthers sagittate: capsule membran-ous, compressed, loculicidally dehis-cent, the valves splitting to the middle. Europaea, Linn. A hardy trailing perennial with veryslender stems : Ivs. orbicular, less than 3^ in. across,7-9-lobed: fls. small, on rather short pedicels, the 2upper lobes of the corolla yellowish, the 3 lower woods, Europe. —Offered in 1893 by John Saul,Washington, Var. is cult, abroad. F. W. (Peruvian name). CucurbitAcew. Two or 3species of tropical American tall-climbing tendril-bear-ing vines, allied to Cucurbita, but differing in havingwide-spreading or reflexed calyx-lobes and the anthers -A billow of. 2326. The common laurel of the East, Kalmia latifolia (X 34)- not united. S. odoritera, JNaud., the Curuba of thetropics, has been introduced as the Cassabanana, butlong known in the South. Fig. 2327. It is a very quick-growing and interesting ornamental vine: plant gla-
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