. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. ir elect ham whorled, and â I up shaped group of bract- rii ish of dull brown, tightly ih of petals protrudes the 1 e 3 in long and bears nu-. The illustration sho , Morr.,ot the trade, is Gtsthea Makoy4na, Hook , 6427, a Brazilian plant with a dark purp
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. ir elect ham whorled, and â I up shaped group of bract- rii ish of dull brown, tightly ih of petals protrudes the 1 e 3 in long and bears nu-. The illustration sho , Morr.,ot the trade, is Gtsthea Makoy4na, Hook , 6427, a Brazilian plant with a dark purple mass of petals set off by about 5 large, broad, showy red bractlets. The only difference between Pavonia and (lOethea lies in the bractlets, which are narrow in the former and broad in the latter. P. intermedia, St. Hil., Fig. 1655, is a Brazilian plant int. by the U. S. Dept. of Agric. for economic reasons. Its bractlets are intermediate in breadth between the two genera Pavonia and Goethea. multifldra, A. St. Hil. {P. irwli, E. Morr.). Robust, probably shnibliy. usually with a simple stem: Ivs. alter- iKite, 6-10 in. X i'.,-2 in.^ oborate-lanceolate, serrulate; Hs. in a short, terfiiinal corymb. Brazil. 6398. F. M. 1877:276. PAWPAW. id Cur PEA. The garden Pea is the most important member of the genus Pisum (which see). It is native to Europe, but has been cultivated from before the Christian eia for the rich seeds. The field or stock Pea differs little from the garden Pea except in its violet rather tliaii white flowers and its small gray seeds. There are many varieties and several well-marked races of gar, , ,1, .1 plots produced plants with colored flow, r- iIk being rose- purple and the keel ^hL lurpl.' ;,<'{ sidasht-d. The light-colored seeds, on thr Icni'l. ^^;tve pure white flowers, larger leaves and broader pods. These facts are interesting in connection with the evolution of the garden Pea and its relationship to the red-flow
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