Identifier: cyclopediaofamer05bail (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed Miller, Wilhelm, 1869- joint ed
Subjects: Gardening -- Dictionaries Plants -- North America encyclopedias
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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appear until thefollowing spring. The seeds of Red and Black Oaksand also of Q. pedunculata, if not sown at once shouldbe stratified and sown early in spring. Acorns sliouldbe packed in earth, moss or saw-dust when shipped fora great distance. Varieties are usually grafted on pottedstock in the greenhouse in early spring or sometimes inAugust. As a stock Q. pedunculata is preferred, butQ. rubra, tlnctoria and Prinus are also employed. It isprobably safer to graft varieties of White and of RedOak each on stock of the same group. The evergreenspecies are sometimes increased by layers and also bycuttings. About 300 species are known, distributed through thecolder and temperate regions of the northern hemisi>liereand in the mountains of the tropics. Almost all sjieciesare trees, but sometimes become shrubby in liigli alti-tudes or in dry and rocky or sandy localities. Lvs.short-petioled, with deciduous stipules, penninerved:fls. monoecious; the staminate in slender, pendulous or (U76)
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QUERCUS QUERCUS 1477 erect catkins with 4-7-parted calyx and 4-12, usually 6,stamens; pistillate in 1-many-fld. spikes in the axils ofthe young Ivs., rarely at the base of the axillary stami-nate catkins, each flower consisting of an inco!upletely3-celled ovary, surrounded by imbricatebracts: fr. a 1-seeded subglobose to oblongnut, surrounded at the base or sometimes al-most inclosed by a cup-like involucre. The numerous species have been dividedInto different subgenera. All American spe-cies, except Q. densiflora, belong to the sub-genus Lepidobalanus (halanos is Greek foracorn), which is characterized by slender,pendulous, staminate catkins, separate axil-larj pistillate spikes and a cup consisting ofbracts of various shape but not connate intozones. Q. densiflora belongs to Pasania,which has erect staminate catkins, some bear-ing pistillate rts. at their base, like the catkinsof Oastanea. Cyclobalanus and Cyclobala-nopsis have the scales of the cup connate intoconcentric rings; the

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