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KIGELIA 



KITCHEN-GARDEN 



somewhat or partially exserted; disk ring-like: fr. a 

 cylindrical, indehiscent rough body, with a thick exte- 

 rior and a fibrous pulp holding the seeds. K. pinnata, 

 DC. (Fig. 2034), the "fetish-tree" and "sausage-tree," 

 is offered in S. Calif., and specimens may be expected 

 in botanical collections in the W. Indies. It is native 

 of the Mozambique district in Afr., where it makes a 

 tree 20-50 ft. high, according to Sprague: Ivs. ternate, 

 the Ifts. 7-9, elliptic-oblong or obovate and 3-6 in. 

 long, serrate or entire, usually glabrous above but 

 sometimes more or less pubescent beneath, the lateral 

 Ifts. sessile but the terminal one with a stalk several 

 inches or a foot long: fls. claret-colored, with a corolla- 

 tube to 3 in. long dilated at the mouth, and lobes to 2J^ 

 in. long: fr. 12-18 in. long, blunt, 5 in. diam., hanging 

 on a peduncle or cord often several ft. long, making 

 very striking objects. In parts of Afr. this tree, or pos- 

 sibly a related species, is said to be held sacred ; and the 

 fr., when cut and slightly roasted, is said to be used as 

 outward applications in certain diseases. The tree is 

 practically unknown in the U. S. G.C. III. 50, suppl. 

 Aug. 12 (1911). L . H. B. 



KIN-KAN: Kumquat. 



KINNIKINNICK: Dry bark of Cornus Amomum, smoked by 

 western Indians. 



KINO. A dark red or blackish plant product, usually 

 of a resinous nature, rich in tannin. There are numer- 

 ous kinds of kino obtained from plants of different 

 families; some are used in medicine as an astringent, 

 others are employed in dyeing and tanning. The 

 Australian or Botany Bay kino is derived from various 

 species of Eucalyptus. E. resinifera is known as the 

 kino eucalypt. 



KIRENGESHOMA (Japanese words meaning yellow 

 Anemonopsis macrophylla) . Saxifragacese. One peren- 

 nial yellow-flowered herb from Japan, K. palmata, 

 Yatabe, which has lately received attention in England 

 where it has proved hardy and appears to be adapted 

 to the shady border or rock-garden; prop, by division. 

 The plant grows at an elevation of over 5,000 ft. in 

 Japan, on Mt. Ishizuchi. Two to 4 ft., upright, the 

 sts. slender and glabrous: Ivs. large and papery, all the 

 lower ones petioled, round-cordate and palmately 

 7-10-lobed, hairy on both surfaces, the lobes acute and 

 coarsely toothed: fls. overtopping the Ivs., on usually 

 3-fld. peduncles, nodding; corolla bell-shaped, to 1% 

 in. long, the 5 petals oblong-lanceolate and recurved 

 above the middle: fr. a loculicidally dehiscing caps. 

 B.M.7944. Gn. 64, p. 246; 74, p. 573. G. 27:421. 

 R.H. 1908, p. 153. Li Hi B> 



KITAIBELIA (Paul Kitaibel, 1757-1817, of the 

 botanic gardens at Pesth). Malv&ceae. One garden 

 species from the S. Danube region, planted in the 

 open, K. vitif&lia, Willd. Hardy robust perennial 

 herb, to 8 ft., allied to Malope: Ivs. angled or 5-lobed, 

 toothed : fls. white or rose, showy, sometimes many and 

 sometimes solitary in the axils; involucre surpassing 

 the calyx, the bracts connate at base and 6-9-parted; 

 calyx 5-parted; petals 5, obpyate, narrowed almost to 

 a claw; staminal column divided at apex into many 

 filaments; ovary many-celled, the carpels becoming 

 congested into a head, dehiscent. It is a plant some- 

 what on the order of abutilon, with vine-like or maple- 

 like Ivs. It thrives in any usual garden soil, and is 

 said to be good for naturalizing in the shrub planta- 

 tions and elsewhere; prop, by division or by seeds. 

 B.M.821. 



K. Baldnsse, Boiss., is a second species very like K. vitifolia, but 

 the Ivs. deeply 5-lobed, stipules ovate, the bracts of involucre much 

 exceeding calyx and oblong-lanceolate and cohering or grown 

 together at base. Cilicia. K. Lindemuthii, Hort., is a graft-hybrid, 

 produced by grafting K. vitifolia on Abutilon Thompsonii. Lvs. 

 variegated or marbled as in the abutilon stock: plant 6-8 ft. Named 

 for H. Lindemuth, of Berlin, its raiser. T TT T> 



pinnata. 



KITCHEN - GARDEN and FLOWER-GARDEN. 



The kitchen-garden is for the kitchen, to grow the 

 supplies that are used in cookery and on the table as 

 food. We ordinarily think of it only as a vegetable- 

 garden, yet it may grow strawberries and other small 

 fruits; and in England the melons are classed with 

 fruits even if grown 

 in the kitchen- 

 garden. It is in 

 the kitchen-garden, 

 also, that the sweet 

 herbs and the gar- 

 nishing plants may 

 be grown; and 

 flowers need be no 

 strangers to it. In 

 fact, some of the 

 best and most 

 attractive kitchen- 

 gardens may be 

 comprised of vege- 

 tables, fruit bushes 

 and flowers, all 

 grown for the table 

 and the home. 



The essential idea 

 is the home-garden- 

 ing idea; and there- 

 fore it is difficult to 

 separate the home 

 vegetable -garden 

 and the home 

 flower - garden by 

 any hard-and-fast 

 or arbitrary line. 



If the place is large enough to have been laid out in 

 a landscape treatment, the home-garden area has been 

 set aside in its place, proper both for exposure and con- 

 venience. With this landscape plan we have nothing 

 to do at the moment except to insist that the home- 

 garden idea shall not have been overlooked and that it 

 shall form one essential part in an artistic subdivision 

 of the property. 



The kitchen-garden of vegetables. 



Human diet consists chiefly of three classes of foods: 

 first, meats, high in protein, useful for structural pur- 

 poses; second, cereals and other starchy or carbohy- 

 drate foods, useful for their high fuel- value; and third, 

 vegetables and fruits. The last mentioned contain but 

 little material for building body or for supplying 

 energy; but they offer other substances seemingly less 

 important, but which are absolutely essential. Most 

 notable among these are the mineral elements. The 

 flavoring and appetizing qualities are scarcely less 

 important, and the requirement for comparatively 

 bulky foods is no more to be neglected in human than 

 in animal nutrition. The truth of these assertions is 

 evident in the fact that no meal is regarded as complete 

 without its vegetarian dishes, and more especially is it 

 emphasized in the intense craving for this sort of food 

 which is experienced in the spring months by those who 

 enjoy but little of it during the winter. Indeed, one 

 can hardly avoid tracing a connection between the 

 meat and cereal diet of the old-time winter and the 

 once accepted notion that one must necessarily be in 

 poor physical condition as spring approaches, and 

 resort to the use of "spring bitters." In fact, certain 

 definite disorders are clearly traced to the lack of vege- 

 table food. 



More appealing than the nutritional value of the 

 vegetable food is its value as a contribution to good 

 living. No diner is satisfied unless vegetables appear 

 on the menu, and the products of the garden add widest 

 variety in the form of condiment and salad, as well as 



