. 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. VICTORIA VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT 1931 Settin<? aside the costly construction, labor, etc., it is by no ineans inviting even on a warm day to spend many minutes in such a structure. Compare tliis with a nat- ural pond and its surroundings and a cool shady seat where these gorgeous plants may be viewed at leisiire
. 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. VICTORIA VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT 1931 Settin<? aside the costly construction, labor, etc., it is by no ineans inviting even on a warm day to spend many minutes in such a structure. Compare tliis with a nat- ural pond and its surroundings and a cool shady seat where these gorgeous plants may be viewed at leisiire. Whether grown indoors or out, these plants are only annuals, and seedlings are of necessity raised every spring. They form no tiibjers as do the tender nym- phaeas, or rootstock as do the hardy nymphreas. Few, if any, insects are troublesome on these plants. The worst is the black fly or aphis. The use of insec- ticides should not be resorted to, as they are most likely to damage the foliage. The safest remedy is to introduce a colony or two of the welI-kTio\^na "lady ; They and their larvae will soon clear oft' all the aphides without any injury to the plant. Wm. Tricker. ViGNA (DorainicVigni,Paduan commentator on Theo- phrastus in the seventeenth century) is a leguminous genus of 30 or more species, closely allied to Phaseolus. It is distinguished under Cowpea in Vol. I. The Cowpea is known both as V. Catjang, Walpers, and V. Sinhisis, Endlicher. The former name, however, dates from 1839 and the latter from 184:8, and the former should be used. The Cowpea is an annual bean-like rambling vine with three rhomboid-ovate stalked leaflets, the lateral ones un- equal-sided, the petioles long. The flowers are bean- like white or pale, borne two or three together on the summit of a long axillary peduncle. The pods are slen- der, usually curved, a few inches to a foot or more long. Seeds small, kidney-shaped, bean-like, white or dark, usually with a different color abo
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