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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
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gston 189 Tree wounds 10, 56, 181 Trees and gardens of Philadelphia, historic 190 Trees and shrubs, pruning 91, 119 Trees, notes on planting 56, 77, 137, 183 Trees, notes on...22, 90, 102, 135, 163, 165, 168, 180 Tulips, branching • 91 Tulip tree, the 105 Turnip flea, the 125 Ulmus serotina 91 Vegetable, a new 30 Vegetation, dormant 151 Verbesina 192 Viburnum plicatum 89 Vines, pruning in summer 88 Violet, California yellow 106 Violet Culture, Commercial 192 Violet, history of the 142 Violets, the wild 39 Vitex Agnus-Castus 91 Walnut, black . 176 Walnut, grafting the English 10 Wart cures 80 Washington the beautiful 126 Weeds 126 Wibbe, Rev. J. Hermann 63 Wild flowers, notes on 35, 68, 132, 170 Winter courses discontinued 144 Wood and Garden in Wood growth, annual 102 Woods in winter, the 5 Worms, earth 72 Wych Hazel, the hazel-leaved 122 Xanthium Canadense 6 Xanthium, seeds of. 52 Yew, the English 181 Yucca alceifolia variegata 107 Zamia integrifolia 69 ^..mSJ.>AwI8MI r LKI c :.
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CHIMAPlillA MAClllATA CHIMAPHILA MACULATA. SPOTTED WINTERGREEN.NATURAL ORDER ERICACEAE. CHIMAPHILA MACULATA, Pursh.—A Span Or more in height, more simple (than Chimaphila umbellaia) ; leaves obloug, orovate-lanceolate, obtuse at base (an inch or two long), sparsely and very sharply serrate ; the upper surface variegatedwith white ; peduncle two-fifths flowered; bracts linear-subulate; filaments villous in the middle; flower compara-tively large, three-fourths inch in diameter. Grays Synoptical Flora of North America. See also Grays Manual ofth Northern United States, Woods Class-Book of Botan\, and Britten and Browns Illustrated Flora of the NorthernUtiited States, Canada and the British Possessions. This remarkably pretty species is figured inHookers Botanical Magazine, plate No.897, but ■with more of a pink tinge than isusual here,—where it is generally of a pale,waxy white, assuming a slight pinkish tingeonly when the flowers begin to fade. It isfound not rarely in woods compmeehansmonthlyma91899phil

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