. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GREEN-HOUSE PLAINTS. to the natural order Amaryllidacece, and may be di- vided into two sections—one of which produces a ramose flower-scape thirty or forty feet high, resem- bling a large candelabrum, of which A. Americana gives an apt illustration; the second section, of which may be taken as a type, produces a simple flowered at an earlier date, but it would appear that these reports were incorrect, and refer to smaller species which had been introduced under the name of " American Aloes; " and instances of their flowering are
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GREEN-HOUSE PLAINTS. to the natural order Amaryllidacece, and may be di- vided into two sections—one of which produces a ramose flower-scape thirty or forty feet high, resem- bling a large candelabrum, of which A. Americana gives an apt illustration; the second section, of which may be taken as a type, produces a simple flowered at an earlier date, but it would appear that these reports were incorrect, and refer to smaller species which had been introduced under the name of " American Aloes; " and instances of their flowering are still so rare that when such a, fact is announced it never fails to attract a large concourse of Agave filipeha. a, flower; b, end of scape only, on which the flowers are usually densely crowded towards the upper part. In the case of the first section, death invariably ensues after flowering; but in the other, plants do sometimes survi%'e the flowering state, when the spike is produced from a lateral and not the terminal bud. The American Agave appears to have first flowered in England about the year 1729. It had been reported to have The cultivation of Aga,ves is extremely simple; in fact, no class of plants can be managed so easily. The first essential is thorough drainage, without which these plants will soon take on a sickly yellow hue and rapidly die; but drain the pots well, use stiff yellow loam for the large-growing kinds, and a rather lighter loam for the less robust, and that is all that is required in the way of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901. London, Paris, New York Melbourne, Cassell & company, limited
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