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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
Identifier: cyclopediaofamer04bail4 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954 ed; Miller, Wilhelm, b. 1869, joint author
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: New York (etc. ) The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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VINES VINES 1939 chal Niel rose, the Cherokee ruse (/?. Sinlca) and the Banksiau rose, N. BanksUe, are all excelleut as con- servatory and cool greenhouse climbers. The following are among the choicest for warm house culture: Allamanda SchottU and A. Ilendersoni are perhaps the best of the allamandas. They have no in sect enemies and are of easy culture. Among aristo- lochias, A. clegana is the choicest, though A. ornitho- cephalus and A. lablosa are curious. Bongainvilhea specios<t and glabra are handsome stove climbers, and should be included in every collection. They are of easy culture and will flower profusely if given a light, warm position. Clerodendron Tho-msonm is perhaps too well known to require any comment. It should be in every collection. Thanbergia laurifolia is one of the handsomest of the thunbergias. It should be grown where it will be somewhat shaded during the warmer parts of the day, as the petals are so delicate that they fade quickly. Among passifloras the scarlet-flowered P. racemosa is excellent; also P. alato-ccBrulea. Their worst enemy is mealy bug. Hoyas, Stephanotis and Plumbago Capensis are all good. Pothos celatocaulis, sometimes catalogued as Mnrcgravia paradoxa, is a good plant for climbing trunks of palms or tree ferns or damp walls. Ctssus disco/or and Asparagus pJu- inosus are both excellent for training up the supports of plant houses. Solanum Wendlandii is one of the best and showiest vines. Edward J. Canning. Vines for Southern California. The following list of vines for this section places them very nearly in their proper order as far as popular demand is concerned. One much-used vine, the ivy geranium, is purposely omitted for lack of knowledge as to its proper place in the list, the demand for this vine being somewhat spasmodic. The ivy geranium, being hardy here, is used for a great variety of purposes, as hanging bas- kets» hedges, and for climbing up the sides and on the roof of a house. Passifloras are unpopular here by reason of the numerous caterpillars that infest them at certain times of the year. Of this list Solavum Wend- landii is probably the most tender, with the bougain- villeas a close second. For the covering of unsightly objects in the least possible time, Ipomoea Leari (Fig. 2678) easily takes first place and the loniceras will rank next. Several species of jasmines are worthy of men- tion, but space forbids, as the list could easily be ex- tended to 100 or more. Vines occupy an important place in the horticulture of southern California, as in other warm and sunny countries. Bougainvillea, all species; Bignonia venusta; Sola- num Wendlandii: Lonicera, several species; Ipomcea Learij Fig. 2678; Tecoma Bicasoliana; Jasminu^n gran- difloruni; Bignonia Tweediana; Solarium Seaforthia' niim, vsir. aznreum: Wistaria Sinensis; Wistaria Si- nensis, var. alba; Sohoitim jasminoides; Tecoma gran- diflora; Tecoma jasminoides ; Phaseolus Caracalla; Tecoma filiclfolia; Hardenbergia monophylla; Hurd- enbergia Comptoniana; Mandevilla suaveolens, Fig. 2679; Hoya carnosa; CUanthus puniceits; Akebia quinata ; Kennedya nigricans ; Muehlenbeckia com- plexa; PJnj.'iiauthHS alhens; Various tacsonias; Figs. 2457, 2458, 2080. Ernest Beaunton. Vines for Middle California. — The number of species of climbing plants cultivated in California for orna- menting town and country homes is large, but on ac- count of the newness of the country and the recentness of introduction of many of them, few species are com- monly seen. In middle California (taking the San Fran- cisco neighborhood as a center) the following are most extensively grown as a covering for porches, arbors and houses: (1) Ampelopsls tricuspidata,(2) Bosa Ban.'csia^ and other species, (3) Cleinatis tTackmani and other varieties, (4) wistarias, (5) tacsonias and passifloras, (6) Lonicera Japonica, var. Balliana. For house adornment the tacsonias are not to be rec- ommended, on account of their rampant and dense growth, which tends to keep the building damp and cold in winter. The Lady Banks rose is a general favorite on account of its evergreen habit and the abundance of blossoms which it produces in spring. Wistaria Chl- nensis is an old and well-tried friend. In spite of a somewhat untidy habit of growth and need of yearly training and trimming, it is probably as much loved in Califijrnia as in its native land, Japan, on account of the exuberant, lavish freedom with which it showers its wealth upon us in the form of immense trusses of fra- grant flowers. Hall's Honeysuckle has such fragrant blossotns, is so easily reproduced by cuttings and blooms so freely and for such a long period, that it is more commonly grown in country places than perhaps any other vine. The following lists ai'e not intended to be complete, but rather suggestive; they are believed to include all the species generally grown in middle California. They are thrown into special-purpose groups. Section 1. — Por houses and places where dense growth would be objectionable. This list does not include all the species at present grown in such places, as several that are frequently so grown have proved unsatisfac- tory.
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2679. Mandevilla suaveolens. Tall, suitable for covering the side of cc house. B. Hardy. Akebia quinata. Figs. 56, 57. Ampelopsis heteropliylla, Ampelopsis quinquefolia. Fig. 80. Ampelopsis quinquefolia, vjir. Engelraaniii. Ampelopsis tricuspidat.i. Figs. 81, 82. Aranjia sericofera (consult Physianthiis), Bignonia Tweediana, Boussingaultia baselloides. Fig. 250. Clematis Henryi. Fig. 4S8. Clematis Jackmaiii. Fig. 489. Clematis kermesina, Clematis montana, Clematis paiiicidata. Figs. 485. 486. Dolichos lignosus, GelsemiTun sempervtrens, Holboellia latifolia, Ipomcea Boiia-nox. Fig. 1170. Ipomoea Mexicana, Jasminutn grandiflorum, Jasminum huraile. Jasminum nudiflorum. Jasminum officinale, Kennedya rnbicuuda, Lautana Camara. Fig. 1239. Lonicera Capri folium. Fig. 1316. Lonicera Japonica, var. Hal- liana. Fig.1314. Lonicera Japonica, var. aureo-reticulata. Lonicera Periclymenum. Fig. 1315. Mandevilla suaveolens. Fig. 2679. Manrandia Barclaiana, MaurancUa enibescens. Maurandia scaudens. Fig. 1378. Melothria punctata, Periploca Gra'ca, Plujnbago Capensis. tig. 1860. Rosa BanksiJB,

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