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Title: The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. [etc., etc.]
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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e at apexor one of them 2-lobed, somewhat twisted, brick-red; hp brick-red: caps, large. S. Amer. L.B.C. 7:634. —C. heliconiifolia, Bouche, Texas to Venezuela, hasthe staminodia more or less connivent: fls. orange-red: Ivs. long-petioled, more or less woolly, oblong-acuminate: plant 7-8 ft. Var. xalapensis, Kriinzl(C. xalapensis, Bouch^), has narrower Ivs. and smallerstature. DD. Staminodia large (.5 in. or less long), united into a tube. E. Fls. pendulous, rose-colored. 24. iridiflora, Ruiz & Pav. St. green, 6-12 ft.: Ivs.broad-oblong, bright green, sHghtly pubescent beneath:racemes paniculate, drooping; fls. large, beautiful rose-color; tube of corolla and staminodia as long as theblade; sepals lanceolate, 1 in. long; corolla-lobes lanceo-late, 21^2 in. long; 3 upper staminodia somewhat longerthan the corolla-lobes, obovate, nearly or quite 1 in.broad, rose-crimson; lip narrow, deeply emarginate,rose-crimson. .•Vndes of Peru. B.M. 1968. B.R. 609.L.B.C. 10:905. R.H. 1861:110.

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784, Stool of canna, showing how it may be divided. EE. Fls. erect-spreading, white and red.25. liluflora, Warsc. St. robust, green, 8-10 ft.:Ivs. many, oblong, green, 3-4 ft. long, spreading fromthe St. at a right angle: fls. in a corymbose panicle;sepals linear, as long as the tube of the corolla; corolla-lobes lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, jiale green, the tube ofequal length; 3 upper staminodia white, united into atube for half their length, the blade obovate and spread-ing; lip oblanceolate, as long as the staminodia. Colom-bia. R.H. 1884:1.32. F.S. 10:1055-6.—A fine species.The white fls. finally become tinged with brown;lonicera-scented. l jj g CANNABIS (the ancient Greek name). Moracese.Hemp. A widely cultivated fiber plant, and also usedoccasionally as an ornamental subject, being grownfrom seeds and treated as a half-hardy annual. Hemp is dioecious: staminate fls. in axillary panicles,with 5 sepals and 5 drooping stamens and no petals;pistillate fls. in short spikes, with 1 se

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Title: A report on the leaf fibers of the United States detailing results of recent investigations relating to Florida sisal hemp, the false sisal hemp plant of Florida, and other fiber-producing agaves; bowstring hemp, pineapple fiber, New Zealand flax, and bear-grass
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Dodge, Charles Richards, 1847-1918
Subjects: Fibers
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Fig. 2. Group of Partially Grown Plants. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Fiber Report No. 5. Plate IX. v

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Fig. 1. Sansevieria Plants in Blossom. : M Fig. 2. Advanced Plants in Propagating Bed. 61 if not cut, stand without injury for a number of years, the plant at the end of that timeaffording just as good fiber as in the first or second year of its growth. I am satis-fied that a plantation would last over ten years without any necessity for renewingit or for interfering with it in any manner. Sansevieria will, after it is well estab-lished, afford a crop of 5 tons of clean fiber per acre, worth, upon estimate, about0 per ton. I selected a few square feet, where the growth was thickest, as an experi-ment, to show how much a crop was capable of producing, cut and cleaned theleaves, and found it gave at the rate of 13| tons of clean fiber per acre. I do not,however, believe that the average crop will go over 5 tons per acre, which I considera fair estimate. The fiber of the sansevieria is capable of being manufactured into anything fromthe heaviest cordage to the finest fabric for ladies

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