Identifier: meehansmonthlyma91899phil (find matches)
Title: Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Thomas Meehan & Sons
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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nchment, to discontinuefor the present the twelve-weeks Winter Lec-ture Course in Agriculture and the Cheese-making Course. The Creamery Course willbe given as heretofore, beginning January 3d,and the work of the regular four-years courseand of the special, one-year course, will go onas usual. Special efforts will also be made toincrease the efficiencj of the CorrespondenceCourses in Agriculture. Changing the Names of Plants.—A bot-anical journal explains that the name of oneof our California spruces must be changed, be-cause it has just been discovered that in anobscure circular, in 1852, some other namewas proposed. If one, who believes he has anew plant to describe, must wait, under thelaws of priority, to be sure that he has atcommand even obscure circulars before hedares do anything with it, the sooner someother law takes it place, the better for the ad-vancement of botanical knowledge. As Gen-eral Grant once said, the best way to break upa bad law is to enforce it. I L.K i i:.
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ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. ORANGE SWALLOW-WORT. NATURAL ORDER, ASCLEPIADACE^ ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA, Linnaeus.—Hirsute or roughish pubescent, a foot or two high, very leaf)to the top ; leaves fromlanceolate-obloug to linear-lanceolate, sessile or slightly petioled ; umbels several an,d mostly cymose at the summitof the stem, short-peduncled ; column short; hoods narrowly oblong, erect (two or three lines long), deep brightorange, much surpassing the anthers, almost as long as the purplish- or slightly greenish-orange oblong corolla-lobes,nearly equalled by the filiform-subulate horn ; follicles cinereous pubescent. Grays Synoptical Flora of NorthAmerica. See also Grays Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, Oaapm&ns Flora of the SouthernUnited States, Woods Class Book of Botany, and Britten and Browns Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States,Canada and the British Possessions. In the Orange Swallow-wort we have one ofthe most show^y of our native flowers. Wecould scarce

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