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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, 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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2122. Ribes Lobbii deeply cut or notched lobes, the stalks glandular: pe-duncles long and filiforni: fls. small, reddish, open andthe tube nearly wanting; berry small and bristly. Coldbogs, N. Eng. to Calif. B.M. C492. L.B.C. 9:884.-Of-fered by dealers as a bog shrub. Intermediate betweenCurrants and Gooseberries. Fls. in short racemes. 7. L6bbu, Gray. Fig. 2122. Upright shrub, to 5 ft.,the young shoots glandular-pubescent, without prickles,but provided with slender, mostly triple thorns: Ivs.small (rarely 1 in. across), round-cordate, 3-5-cleft andnotched, glandular on both surfaces: peduncles droop-ing, 1-2-fld.: fls. showy, with purple tube and reflexedlobes, the small, erect petals white, the anthers ex-serted: berry glandular-hairy. N. Calif, to B. C. B.M.4931 (as B. subvestitum). G.C. II. 19:11.-Showy. AA. Stems ilwrnless and prickleless. (Cxirrants.) B. Fls. small, wide open, greenish white or yelloivish. c. Lvs. without resinous dots: fr. red. 8. multifldrum, Kit. Younger part

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