The Encyclopedia Americana Volume 15; A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World

Scientific American, Inc

ISBN 10: 1130901394 / ISBN 13: 9781130901399

Published by Rarebooksclub.com, 2012

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Zustand: Gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Encyclopedia Americana Volume 15; A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World
• Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1130901394
• ISBN 13: 9781130901399
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Gut
• Seller catalogs:
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 ...as ornamental vines, to cover walls, verandahs, etc. The yellow elder, or upright trumpet-flower (T. stans), is an evergreen shrub of erect growth introduced from Central America, and growing readily in southern Florida. The leaves are pinnate, and immense panicles of goldenyellow flowers bend down the branches with the weight of their bloom. The Cape honeysuckle (T. capensis) is an evergreen climber which can be trained into shrub form, and is useful for Florida; it can also be grown as a climber, or like T. smithii, as a pot-plant, in northern greenhouses. Bignonio vcnusta of Brazil is another greenhouse climber in the North, but can be grown out of doors in warm climates. Its hanging, string-like shoots are clothed with axillary and terminal clusters of large tubular orange-yellow flowers, for four or five feet of their length. The cross-vine, or quarter-vine (B. crucigera) of the southern United States, so called because a transverse section of the stem shows a cruciform marking, is also known as the tendriled trumpet-flower. 'The leaves are pinnate with only two leaflets, and terminate in a branched tendril; the flowers are large and campanulate with undulate or slightly lobed limb borne in few-flowered cymes. Gelsemium sempervircns, formerly classified among bignonias, is not only called yellow jasmine, but also the evergreen trumpet-flower. Various species of Solandra, Brunfclsia, Catalpa, and Datura, are known as trumpet-flowers; especially tropical tree-species of Datura, such as in Java form boundary hedges about the coffee plantations, and are a marked feature in the landscape. Thcvetia neriifolia, of tropical America, is an oleander-like, poisonous plant, with yellow, fragrant flowers, and curious fruit, and is known as yellow-oleander, or trump...