Identifier: cyclopediaofamer00bail (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
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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Gray. A handsomer plant, with largerand more showy beads with blue-velvet rays : invo-lucre bracts oblong or obovate and obtuse (often bear-ing a minute point); pappus scales small, the awnspresent and conspicuous. Kans. and Mo. G.F. 5:271.Perennial. B. CantonUnsis^ Franch. & Sav., is native to Japan,where the young plants are used for greens. See George-son, A.G. 13, p. 8, fig. 4. It is annual. Has not yet ap-peared in the Amer. trade. Gray restricts Boltonia tothe U. S., and regards this species as of another genus. L. H. B. BOMAREA (derivation doubtful). Amari/Uiddcece.Tender South American plants allied to Alstroemeria,and with similar fls. but a twining habit. Lvs. parallel-veined, usually borne on short, twisted petioles: fls. inpendulous umbels, variously colored and spotted, bornein early spring and summer : perianth funnel-shaped :tube none. See Baker. Amaryllide*. Boraareas delight in a rich, fibrous soil, and requireplenty of water during the growing season, which com-
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Plate ill. A hardy borderA permanent plantatioD of woody and herbaceous plants, well grown and well placed. John Sloane estate. Lenox, Mass. BOMAREA BORDER 169 mences early in spring. Late in fall the stems are cutdown to the ground and the roots are kept in the soil ina dry state. While they often make satisfactory potplants, they do best when planted out in an open, sunnyposition in a cool conservatory, where they have plenty

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