Identifier: meehansmonthlyma91899phil (find matches)
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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h ofits water, and will be called Phalen Park. Inthis, the City Council is performing a doublepublic service, for while providing a place forthe health and recreation of the people for alltime, by keeping control of the borders of theLake, they aid in guarding the water sourcefrom pollution,—a point all cities that wouldbe in the advance are aiming to secure. Birds-eye Sycamore.—That evil often hasattendant blessings, is well illustrated by theButtonwood or Sycamore disease. It is well known that this American relativeof the Oriental Plane suffers seriously in earlysummer by a fungus attack that destroys theyoung shoots, and other buds have to pushinto new growth to replace the ones destroyed.But the woody bases, of the dead spring-branches, are grown over by the increase inthe woody girth, and form small knots, orbirds-eyes in the timber. This gives thetimber a great value in the preparation offancy furniture, and the wood brings a highprice in the lumber market. niJX. Plate (/^,
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^^!i^ UlKSUlVS. OXYBAPHUS HIRSUTUS. HAIRY OXYBAPH. NATURAL ORDER, NYCTAGINACE^ OxYBAPHUS HIRSUTUS, Sweet.—One foot high, very densely pilose, with long, spreading, articulated hairs; leaves lanceo-late, the lower short-petioled ; involucre pubescent-tomentose ; fruit hirsute. Coulters Botany of the Rocky Motin-tain region. See also Britton and Browns///i<j/»a/^a/7o)-a o//A« Northern United States, Canada, avd the B) HishPossessions, VM^^x Vac name oi Allionia kirsuta. For the earl)- history of this plant, we haveto go to that of some of its allies with which itwas once associated, especiallj^ the prett)^ Mar-vel of Peru of the Gardens, Mirabilis Jalapa.This is one of the oldest plants of theAmerican continent known to our forefathers,as it was introduced to cultivation four hun-dred 3^ears ago. Clusius, who wrote a historyof rare plants, in 1601, refers to it as theAdmirabilis Peruviana. Linnaeus, when he,reconstructed botan), and reduced plantnames to two,—the noun and its a

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