. 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. AGAPAXTHl'S and wMte-fld.),with scape4 ft. high; double-fid. variety; variegated-lvd. varieties, as var. attreus and var. varie- gAtus; var. Lelchtlinii, a compact-trussed blue form ; and others. L. H. B. AGABICUS, a genus of fleshy fungi, considered under Mushroom. See Felicia. AGATHIS(0!7a^?iis, g
. 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. AGAPAXTHl'S and wMte-fld.),with scape4 ft. high; double-fid. variety; variegated-lvd. varieties, as var. attreus and var. varie- gAtus; var. Lelchtlinii, a compact-trussed blue form ; and others. L. H. B. AGABICUS, a genus of fleshy fungi, considered under Mushroom. See Felicia. AGATHIS(0!7a^?iis, glome; the fls. in clusters). Tender Australian conifers, allied to Araucaria, yielding Dam- mar resin. Cones axillary, globular or short. robiista, Hook. {Ddmmara roTiHsta, C. Moore). Branches somewhat verticillate, horizontal: Ivs. broad, oval-lanceolate, obtuse: tree reaching 130 feet in Austral. -Cult, in Calif. AGAVE 33. 45. Aeave Americana. ly Erown in green AGAVE (Greek, ai7((M«s, admirable). AinaryUidAcem. Important decorative and economic plants from hot American deserts, the most familiar of which is A. Americana, the American Century Plant. St. short or wanting : Ivs. mostly in a close rosette, mostly stiff and more or less fleshy, persisting from year to year, the margins mostly armed with teeth and the apex tipped with a more or less pungent spine : fls. in spikes or panicles; perianth 6-parted, more or less funnel-shaped; stamens 6, mostly long-exserted ; style 1 ; ovary infe- rior, 3-celled ; seeds numerous, flat, thin, triangular, black. Some species flower but once and die, others oc- casionally, while others flower from year to year. The number of species is about 150, although more than 325 have been described. One of the largest collections is at Kew, where there are 85 named species. The largest collections in the United States are at the Botanical Garden of Washington and the Missouri Botanical Gar- den, where there are about 75 species each. Amateurs ofte
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