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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Apricot—cont inued. 
Moo k.* The sort most generally grown; large, handsome, 
and of excellent quality. Colour brownish-orange ; flesh rich, 
juicy, and sweet. Itis one of the best and most ; useful sorts in 
cultivation. 
Peach, or Grosse Peche. Distinct and very desirable. Fruit 
very large ; flesh rich, firm, and juicy. One of the very best. 
Royal.* Not unlike Moorpark, but witha more robust constitution, 
pew Bt less given to limb dying. Fruit large, dull, yellow, rich, 
and juicy. 
e Turkey.* A liete variety. Colour pale yellow ; flavour rich and 
juicy ; flesh fi 
For modes a Training and Budding, Diseases, Insect 
Pests, &c., full information will be found under each indi- 
vidual title. 
APTERANTHES. See Boucerosia. 
APTEROUS. Without wings. 
AQUATIC PLANTS. The culture of Aquatic Plants, 
both indoors and in the open air, has been greatly neglected 
of late years; they are, therefore, rarely seen to perfection 
in places other than where their culture is made a speciality. 
Generally speaking, they are most easily grown. The 
following stove and greenhouse genera are well worth at- 
tention: Aponogeton, Cyperus, Damasonium, Herpestis, 
Limnocharis, Nelumbium, Nymphea, Ouvirandra, Pistia, 
Pontederia, Salvinia, Thalia, Trianea, Victoria. Many 
species belonging to some of the foregoing genera are 
hardy, as are also the following: Alisma, Butomus, Calla, 
Hottonia, Menyanthes, Nuphar, Polygonum, Sagittaria, 
Trapa, Typha, Villarsia. 
AQUATICUS. Living in water. 
AQUATILIS. Living under water. 
AQUILEGIA aie aquila, an micas in reference to 
the form of the petals). Columbine. ORD. Ranunculaceae. 
Erect hardy perennial herbs with fibrous roots. Flowers soli- 
tary or panicled, drooping ; sepals five, petaloid, deciduous ; 
petals five, concave, spurred; spurs very large, produced 
downwards into hollow tubes, and frequently curved at 
the extremity; carpels five, sessile, free. Radical leaves 
on long stalks, twice or thrice ternate, with. trifid-toothed, 
usually blunt segments. Too much praise can scarcely be 
lavished upon this elegant genus of plants. They prefer 
a moist and sheltered situation, with exposure to the 
sun. The more robust species will thrive in ordinary 
garden soil, but the rarer and more delicate kinds 
require a good friable sandy loam and leaf soil, with good 
drainage. Seed is produced in abundance, and must bê 
sown very thinly, as soon as practicable after being ripe, 
in a shady place or in pans in a cold frame. When up, 
‘and strong enough to remove, the seedlings may be 
planted out where they are to bloom, allowing every 
plant at least 9in. each way. The strong-growing kinds 
may be placed in the border, the dwarf ones on the 
rockery. When in bloom, the inferior sorts should be 
weeded out, retaining only the best varieties. To obtain 
seed true of any species, it is absolutely necessary to plant | 
the separate kinds far apart, and cover them with fine 
muslin, to prevent the access of insects to the flowers, as 
none are more easily cross-fertilised. Division of the root 
is the only way to perpetuate any particular variety with 
certainty, unless seed is saved in the way mentioned, or 
imported from the native habitats of particular species. 
There are many beautiful hybrids, as well as Species, in 
psoas 
ed, deep blue or blue and white, on leafy, two to three- 
lowered stems; spurs straight, but somewhat awe at the 
apex, one 
apes ments deeply divided into linear lobes. h. 1ft. Aipa of Swi he 
zerland, in shady humid places, 1731. Plant this on the 
dark pu le) ft. dark purple or bluish violet, 
or lin. geod se va two or three = 
A. alpina (alpine).* ji. from 2in, to 3in. in diameter when ex- 
one-half shorter than the petal limb. Ma: 
rr 5 Swit 
A. arctica (Arctic). A form of A. formosa. 
B head; na aig omal Sa ia ek with the petals’ limb 
| 
| A, aurea (golden).* 
Aquilegia—continued. 
sepals about as long as the petals. May. 
h. 2ft. to 3ft. Siberia. Border plant. $ 
A synonym of A. chiijsantha flavescens. * ~ 
A. Bertoloni (Bertoloni’s).* fl. aboùt lin. across, blue-violet 
throughout ; sepals about fin. long, rounded ; pe tals about the 
same length ; spurs very short, knobbed; stems two to four 
flowered. Juneand July. J. smal}, dark green, and glaucous, A 
very pretty little alpine, growing about lft. high. Syn. A. Reuteri. 
l. petioled, biternate. 
p 
SY 
Fig. 133. AQUILEGIA CERULEA. 
A. . NENIARN Le poog PA iA mecca on a stem, blue and white, 
h lilac or claret, rarely pure 
white, aaa pier ax nded ain te ain. in diame 
slender, nearly s aight, d green ee about 2in. long: April te 
July. lslarge, biterna to 15in. Rocky 
1864. A very lovely ona Mon the the border or base of the rockery. 
Syns. A. leptoceras, A. macrantha. See Fig. 133. 
A. ¢. alba (white).* fl. the same size and form as the t: 
throughout. Rocky Mountains. A very rare and lovely v: ariety ; ‘ 
sometimes met with under the name of A. grandiflora. 
A. c. hybrida (hybrid).* f/i. blue and white, not so wide across as 
™ the type, Say cee numerous, and the plant has a much more 
vigorous habit. Of garden origin. 
A. californica (Californian).* 
A form of A. formosa, 
prienna 
ainaani mememe ~ 
Fig. a AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS, b contd Habit and Flower. 
less 
canadensis (Canadian).* ft. scarlet, malxell väi yellow, 
“alan jn in d in ees protean S piraighi jonne $ than han the tae ; mee 
zr un segments three-parted, r eah, 
i atl he apex: h. lit. to 2ft. North America, 
‘or ot be very pretty. See Fig. 134. 
2, white 
