HEMEROCALLIS 



variety with variegated Ivs. Var. flfire pleno, Hort., is 

 shown in F.S. 18:1S91, with a red spot on the middle of 

 each segment. Gn. 48, p. 401. R.H. 18U7, p. 139. Var. 

 variegata has a stripe of white down the middle of 



HEPATICA 



729 



eh leaf. 



W. JI. 



HEMICtCLIA (Greek, semi-circular; referring to 

 the scar or furrow on the seed). iJuphorhiAcea. This 

 includes a spreading tree, attaining a height of 40 ft., 

 which is cult, in S. Calif, by Frauceschi, who values it 

 for its "beautiful holly-like Its. and red fruits." The 

 genus has about 9 species, natives of India, Ceylon and 

 the Eastern Archipelago, with no near allies of garden 

 value. Trees or shrubs: Ivs. alternate, petioled, entire, 

 leathery when full grown: fls. dioecious; petals none; 

 sepals of staminate fls. 4-5, the inner often larger and 

 somewhat petal-like : fr. a globose or ovoid, indehiscent 

 drupe: seed by abortion, usually solitary. H. Austra- 

 htsiea is told from the other 2 Australian species by its 

 very short filaments and glabrous ovary. 



Austral&sica, Muell. Arg. Lvs. broadly ovate to 

 ovate-oblung, obtuse, lli-W in. long, finely veined be- 

 low: fr. nearly Ji in. long, very smooth, red and succu- 

 lent, enclosing a stone. 



HEMIONiTIS (Greek, muU; the plants erroneously 

 supposed to be sterile). Polypodiilcew. A genus of 

 tropical ferns, with copiously netted veins and naked 

 sori following the veins. Eight or 9 species occur in 

 the tropics of both hemispheres. The plants are dwarf, 

 and are grown in Wardiiin cases by a few fanciers in 

 the Old World. For culturi.-. see Ftrns. 



H.palnuitn. I, 



surfaces pubesct 



Lvs. 4-10 in. wide, with a broad 



slender, lanceolate divisions: plant smooth. Mex. G-.F. 4 



L. M. Underwood 



HEMITfiLIA (Greek. ici7/, hall u roof: referring 



sori). Ciiolho:,.'. „ . A :.'.-nu^ nf tn-.- f.-n,s .if tl,,- tn.pi. 



Slum, c"ii^i~tii 

 deciduous. S. 

 For culture, S( 

 -H. Guianensis 

 bi-tripinnate, th 

 at tho npper po 



\s. i.:i]in.it,'. 2-6 in. wide, with 5 nearly 

 Ills, thus,, i.f the sterile lvs. less acute; 

 Indies, Mex.. S.Anier.— i7. elegans. Dav. 

 the base and 5 long 



:-itly scaly and hispid: lvs. 



'! -I iiictly winged, especially 



" 'i segment, usually 2-4; 



IT*. 111^1"',, ,,,i,-,t,. ;,.,,. \ ;ir. Partirffe, Hort.. is the 



f.|''i-.|" II % I,., !i :-i-h Guiana. I.H.24:280. 



II I ■■ ' ii' ' ! I ]ir I ■. . llie pinnie distant and 



^ ■ ' , _ : I I I liroad, the base truncate 



'" •• .1-- -I i;.-.'; ;ii .: : in .,11,. r lines near the margin, 



\ L:;L,:,iL..i. l.Ll. ,i.',i,. L. M. Underwood. 



HEMLOCK in Old World literature is what we call 

 Poison Hemlock, an umbelliferous herb named Conium 

 miiculatnm. By Hemlock. Americans mean Hemlock 

 Spruce, an evergreen tree, Tsuga Canadensis. 



HEMP. Common Hemp is Camiribis stiiiva (which 

 seel. Bowstring H., see ,S''ni,<:fcf<'r/«. Manilla H., ifHsa 

 textilis. Sisal H., Aijave rigida, var. Sisalana. 



HEN-AND-CHICKENS. A proliferous form of the 

 English daisy, Bellis perennis ; also the thick-leaved 

 rosettes of Cotyledon, used in carpet-bedding and known 

 as Echeveria. 



HENBANE Hyoscijamus nige 

 HENDERSON, PETEE ( PH 



gau 



eeds 



and 



Pathhead, near Edinbm gli s,-otl it 

 Jersey Citv, Jan 1 Ism Hew 

 methods of g aid ( I V 



under Geo The i I 



gan business in I 

 capital of $'iOO s 1 i h 



ued to Ine there until bis .1. t 

 of "Gardening f .1 Piuflt ' in ls(, 

 American hoiticulture It was thf 

 devoted entirely to maiket garden 

 induce many persons to eutei the business 



iL 1 lu I >l 1 W urld 

 in ls4i worked 

 and 111 1647 be 



gaidenei with a 



u<l : 



of his death about 130,000 copies of the book are said to 

 have been distributed. It was written in an aggiegate 

 of 100 hours, when tlie author was working lo'hours a 

 day, largely at manual labor. At the noon intervals and 

 late at night he wrote this work lying on his back, with 

 a pillow under his head. The secret of its success, and 

 of the author's, was the invention of new methods 

 adapted to operations on a large scale. The second edi- 

 tion in 1S74, and the third in 1887, are both thorough re- 

 visions. 



"Henderson's Practical Floriculture," 18G8, was an 

 epoch-making book in commercial floriculture. Up to 

 this time most works on flower-gardening had been 

 written for the amateur. This point of view is neces- 

 sarily the commoner one, and Henderson's contribution 

 to it was "Gardening for Pleasure. •■ 187."i. In the compi- 

 lation of "The Handbook of Plants," lusl. liewas lar.'elv 

 aided by C. L. Allen, and in the second cliti,,!,, Is'ii? l.v 

 W. J. Davidson. "Garden and Farm 'J'.i 'i - \\ ,1^ i-.n, ,1 

 in 1884, and in the same year appean.i i ' : I i in 

 Pays," a stenographic report of conv. 1 I . ,1, 



Wm. Crozier and Peter Henderson. It 1^ . i iiin..| tli:it 

 ■early a quarter of a million copies of his various works 

 have been sold. His seed business was founded at New 

 York in 1865. Lately more than 200,000 copies of the 

 various catalogues have been distributed annually. 



Few men, if any, have done so much to simplify and 

 improve methods of handling plants for commercial 

 purposes. His greenhouses were an obiect lesson to 

 many visitors, his methods were widely copied, and his 

 business successes were the goal of ambitious market- 

 gardeners and florists, among whom he was for many 

 years the most commanding figure. He was a frequent 

 contributor to the horticultural and agricultural maga- 

 zines, and during his forty-two years of business life is 

 supposed to have written or dictated at least 175,000 

 letters. Two-thirds of these letters were written with 

 his own hands, and he always replied promptly to in- 

 quiries about methods of cultivation. A self-made man, 

 simple and abstemious in his habits, he was a tireless 

 worker. He combined in a high degree the faculties of 

 growing plants and of busines's ability. His mastery of 

 details was complete. His books are exceptionally read- 

 able, his powerful personality appearing through every 

 page. The records of his personal experience are prac- 

 tical, ingenious and fertile in suggestion. An account 

 of his life is published in a memoir of 48 pages by his 

 son, Alfred Henderson. ^f M 



HfiNFREYA. See Asystasic. 



HEPATICA (iiver-like, from the shape of the leaves). 



Hepatk 

 of the 

 zone. 



San. 

 'J specif: 

 north 

 Stemles 

 lvs. 3-lobed and sometimes 

 toothed; appearing after 

 the flowers and remaining 

 green over winter: scapes 

 1-fld., with an involucre 

 of 3 small sessile lvs. sim- 

 ulating a calyx : sepals 

 petal-like, white, pink or 

 purple: akenes short- 

 beaked, pubescent. Fig. 

 1038. The plants prefer 

 shade, but do fairly well In 

 open places They should 

 leniain undisturbed from 

 year to year, in rich, well 

 drained loam Well suited 

 to the noith or east slope 

 of a rockeij Plants kept 

 in pots m a coldfiame un 

 til midwinter will quukh 

 bloom at an\ time desiied 



Liver Leaf. A genus of 



divisi n . 

 triloba 



Pi op by 

 ( Hepdhi 



Sepdtica, Karst. Anemdne 

 loba, Hort.). Scapes 4-6 in.: 

 £ lvs obtuse fls ^o-l in. across; sepals oval or 



