Archive image from page 193 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer01bail1 Year: 1900 164 BISMARCKIA BLACKBERRY BISMAECKIA (in honor of Prince Bismarck). Pal- r/iiXce(v, tribe Bordssetp. A genus nearly related to La- tania and Borassus, distinguislied by fruit cliaracters. Forms a tree 200 ft.
Archive image from page 193 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer01bail1 Year: 1900 164 BISMARCKIA BLACKBERRY BISMAECKIA (in honor of Prince Bismarck). Pal- r/iiXce(v, tribe Bordssetp. A genus nearly related to La- tania and Borassus, distinguislied by fruit cliaracters. Forms a tree 200 ft. higli, witti a gigantic crown of pal- mate Ivs. with white streaked petioles and blades 10 ft. in diam.: fr. borne in large, drooping clusters, dark brown, plum-like, lin. in diam., with a thin outer shell and a fibrous inner one enclosing a rounded, wrinkled seed 1 in. in diam., reticulated like a walnut and ruminated, as in the nutmeg. Cult, as for Latania. ndbilis, Hildeh. & Wendl. Young plants : petiole con- vex on the back, channelled above, finely serrate on the ridges above, thinly clothed with tults of fibrous scales, half as long as the blade ; blade blue-green, rigid, 3 ft. in diam.; segments 20, 2 in. wide, 1 ft. long, apex blunt, obtuse, with a long curved filament from the base of each sinus. Madagascar. 6:246. 2:257. Gt. 1221. Jared G. SmTH. BITTER-SWEET. See Celastrtis and. Solanum. BlXA (South American name). Bixdcece. A genus of two species of tropical trees with large, entire ivs. and showy fis. in terminal panicles, i?. Orellana is cult, in the E. and W. Indies for the Annatto dye which is prepared from the orange-red pulp that covers the seeds. It is the coloring matter chiefly used in butter and cheese. It is also used in dyeing silks, and preparing chocolate. OrelMna, Linn. Height 30 ft.: Ivs. cordate : fls. pink- ish. 1456. —It is rarely grown in northern green- houses as an ornamental. Cuttings taken from a liower- ing plant will produce
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