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DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
The following are the Abbreviations used :—f. flowers; fr. fruit; 
rhiz. rhizomes; cau. caudex ; sti. stipes. 
The Asterisks (*) indicate plants that are especially good or distinct. 
l. leaves; h. height; deg. degrees ; 
A. In compound words from the Greek the initial a 
; acaulis, without a stem, &e. 
S ROD. See Verbascum Thapsus. 
ABELE TREE. Nai Poplar. See Populus 
ABELIA sare] ile Dr. Clarke Abel, Physician to 
Lord Amherst’s Embassy to China, in 1817, ‘and author of 
a “Narrative of a Journey to China” (1818); died 1826). 
Sika, Caprifoliacee. 
tubular, funnel-shaped, five-lobed. Leaves petiolate, den- 
tately crenated. Well suited for the cold greenhouse, 
either s trellis or pot plants; free-flowering when well 
grown, and of easy culture. May be treated in sheltered 
and warm climates as hardy; and can be grown out of 
doors during summer in less favoured spots. Théy thrive 
~ ina compost of peat and loam in equal parts, to which a 
* small quantity of silver sand may be added. Increased 
by cuttings in summer, and by layers in spring, under 
floribunda and rupestris, 
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La 
ered).* . Tosy- urple, about 2in. long, 
clusters. March, l opposite, 0 oblong. h. 3ft. Mexico, 
ms best and freest flowering evergreen species. Sept 
C A sona pera small, in pairs at 
s of leafy ma a reddish 
oblong. h. 5ft. China, 1844. A 
shrub. 
ve pe yh lag > elgg id 
hairs. ber. ps ena 
has nsnaliy a privative meaning; as aphyllus, without 
BEARD. Se Hypericum caly- 
Very ornamental shrubs. r 
way; applied in natural history to species or genera that 
deviate from the usual characters of their : 
ABIES (from abeo, to rise; alluding to the iain 
habit of growth of the tree; or, according to some, from 
apios, a Pear-tree, in allusion to the form of the fruit). 
Spruce Fir. The synonymy of this genus is much 
confused, plants belonging to several genera being ho 
quently referred to Abies in nurserymen’s catalogues and 
gardening periodicals. ORD. Conifere. A -genus of © 
about twenty-five species, widely distributed over the — 
mountainous regions of the Northern hemisphere. Cones 
cylindrical, or but slightly tapering, erect; catkins gener- 
ally solitary; the carpels not thickened at the tip; and 
the leaves solitary, partially scattered in insertion, and = 
more or less two-ranked in direction. Seales deciduous, oe 
falling off as soon as the seed is ripe, leaving the axis 
on the tree. All the es bear seeds at a compara- 
tively sang age; most are perfectly hardy. For general 
lovely).* shoots rather rig 
“pated amabilis (o PL with prelen furrowed, with elom- don 
scattered, crowded, ljin. to 2in. long ; linear obtuse, dark 
above, silvery beneath. The cones are described as cylindric: 
and about bin. long. hk. 180ft. California, 1831. A 
conifer, very massive in appearance, i 
A. baborensis.* l. linear, dark silvery on 
surface, very numerous, those of E Tito r. ixanchen e 
ointed, and those of the aancha more ro obuso” so and p 
in. to lin. long. cones erect, cylindri i 
our or five, Sin. to Bin. long, and abou té 
reniform, ree 
bract. A. to ott. Algiers, 64, 
bag, e tin tree. Syn. A. Numidica 
alm of Gilead Balsam Fir).* 
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