. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 672. Wild Aster, or Michaelmas Daisy. (XK.) not domesticated. In DAISY (i. e., day's eye, in allusion to the sun-like form of the Hower). A name which properly belongs to the perentiis of Europe, a low early -
. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 672. Wild Aster, or Michaelmas Daisy. (XK.) not domesticated. In DAISY (i. e., day's eye, in allusion to the sun-like form of the Hower). A name which properly belongs to the perentiis of Europe, a low early - flowering composite, which, in its double foims (Pig. 6G9), is widely known as agardenplant (.see£eZiJs). The American congener is J?, in- tegrifolia, an annual or biennial, very like the Old World species, ranging south- westward from Kentucky; it N. America, the word Daisy is applied to many field com- posites, particularly to those of comparatively low growth and large flower-heads. Unqualified, the word is com- monly understood to mean VhrysantJienium Leiteanthe- mum (Fig. G70), an Old World plant which has become an abundant field weed in the eastern part of the coun- try. This plant is also commonly known as the Ox-Eye Daisy, although in parts of New England it is known as Whiteweed, and the term Ox-Eye is applied Ui limlhickiit hirta (Fig. 1171), which has a yellow-rayed head. ICin to the ChrifsautJt'niioii Jjeucanthenium are the Paris Dai- nr ., of the conservatories (see Chry- saiitli, 1,111111 )â The wOd Asters (Fig. 672) are called Daisies, especially Michaelmas Daisies, in many parts of the country, particularly west of New York. Spring- flowering Erigerons also are called Daisies. The Swan River Daisy is Brachycome iheridifolia (Figs. 255, 256). The African Daisy is a species of Louas. l H. B. DALB£R6IA (N. Dalberg, a Swedish botanist, 1730 to 1820). Legnmin-dsw. About 60 species of trees, shrubs, or climbers, belonging to tropica
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