Identifier: populargardening8687buff (find matches)
Title: Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Publisher: Buffalo, New York Popular gardening publishing company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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nce with atriple Calla, says that the plant which bore onesuch flower soon afterwards, from some un-known cause, rotted to the ground. He dugdown and took away the bulblets from thesides of the tuber and planted them. Such asgrew produced single spathes similar to theordinary fonn. We have spoken of the Calla spathe as beinglooked upon as the flower of the plant; it is amistake, howbeit a very common one, to soconsider it. Let us get the right idea aboutthis matter concerning our beautiful favorite. The showy white spathe that looms up soprominently is nothing more than a modifiedleaf, botanically speaking, and has no relationto any individual blossom. The no less beau-tiful and delicately molded golden pillar, orspadix, in the center comes nearer to being theflower, for this is nothing other than a thickmass of small antheriferous flowers, so closelyset together as to form almost a solid siirface.These are the real blossoms. The well-knownIndian Turnip and various other plants, form-
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the canopied sepals and petals in a way tosuggest two clergymen under a soundingboard, the rostellum being the pulpit. It isin some localities named Preachei-s in thePulpit on this account. Among the numerousdifferent species and varieties peculiar to theUnited States are such as bear the names ofWhip-poor-wills Shoe, Venus Slipper, OldGoose, Ladys Slipper, Noahs Ark, Adamand Eve, Mocca.sin Flower, Ladies Tresses,Thi-ee Birds, Dragons Claw, and others, allof which names were suggested fromsome real or fancied resemblance, inmany cases very marked. In the Orchids, peculiar to the Tropicsand grown under glass in the North,we find the family at its best and show-ing every conceivable color, exceptblue, which is never met with in thefamily, although violet, pui-ple andlilac aie. Brown, so rarely seen inflowers is in these quite common. Un-like with most plants, cultivation seemsnot to improve this family. Roots and leaves, as well as theflowers, help maintain the reputationof this family

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