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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . 55. Ailanthus shoots 56. Akebia quinata. The expanded flowers are pistillate; the others are staminate. pyramidilis, Linn. St. erect: cauline lvs. obovate,hardly petiolate, in a 4-sided pyramid; floral lvs. broadlyovate, the highest often colored; all lvs. entire: fl. whorlsusually a
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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . 55. Ailanthus shoots 56. Akebia quinata. The expanded flowers are pistillate; the others are staminate. pyramidilis, Linn. St. erect: cauline lvs. obovate,hardly petiolate, in a 4-sided pyramid; floral lvs. broadlyovate, the highest often colored; all lvs. entire: fl. whorlsusually all spieate. rSptans, Linn. St. prostrate : lvs. ovate or obovate,entire or sinuate, shiny.—A low, dense, fast-spreadingcreeper, excellent for covering sluidy slopes. The typicaland white-fld. forms are less cult, than the fidlowing :Var. riJbra, Hort. More valued for its dark purple its blue fls. Var. variegita, Hort. Lvs. splashedand edged creamy yellow. metillica var. criapa, Hort., int. byHenderson, 1899, is described as dwarf(4-5 in.), with curled, metallic glossy andblue fls. in a pyramidal spike. A bed-ding plant, int. from Germany. J. B. Keller and W. M. AK£BIA (from Akebi, its Japanese name). Berberiddcece. Twining glabrous .5 shrubs: lvs. long-petioled, digitate, coria- ^ ceous: fls. m
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