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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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on theproscribed list. Spartanburg, South Carolina.—A cor-respondent says :— I was particularly pleasedwith a visit to Spartanburg and Glen Springs,in the upper part of this State. The plantsand flowers were delightful. It is a remark-ably pretty town of about 12,000 inhabitants,and its beautiful residences and lovely flowergardens, remind me very much of Orange,New Jersey. I was told, in Spartanburg, thatthe common name of the pretty, yellow orchid,Habenatia ciliata, was old-woman-in-a-capfrom the sort of frill around the flower. Postal Savings Banks. — Mr. Horace J.Smith, son of the late John Jay Smith, former-ly Editor of Downings Horticulturist, is de-voting his chief energies in the endeavor to getour country to copy from England her verysuccessful Postal Savings Banks. That hemay succeed is the wish of all who know thatthere is no better foundation for morality thanthe habit of saving. It induces industry.Lovers of gardening are proverbral for industry. VOL.iX. i j_.y \ 1
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i )A CJ^i t_; I \(. I- , \ - \ ■ I ■ rti PASSIFLORA INCARNATA. COMMON AMERICAN PASSION FLOWER. NATURAL ORDER, PASSIFLORACE^. PASSIFLORA INCARNATA, Linnccus.—Leaves palmately three-lobed, acute, serrate; petioles bi-glandular; peduncles three-bracted; sepals with a horn-like point below the apex, whitish within; filaments of the crown in about five rows, thetwo outer ones as long as the sepals; berry large, oval. (Chapmans Flora of the Southern United States. See alsoGrays Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, Woods Class-Book of Botany, and Britton and BrownsIllustrated Flora of the Northern United Stales, Canada and British Possessions.) Few plants show better the great progresswhich has been made in botanical knowledgethan this, for when it was first introducedfrom the New World to the Old, it was classedwith Clematis by the best botanists of thosetimes. Now it is known to be widely differentfrom that type of flower. It is indeed very closely related to the cucum

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