February  23,  1899, 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
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produced  under  cultivation,  and  in  the  figures  we  have  cited,  which  are 
the  only  ones  known  to  us,  this  most  characteristic  feature  is  omitted 
from  the  absence  of  materials.  When  mature  the  fruit  measures  about 
is  then  veiy  ornamental.  It  is  probable  that  by  artificial  fertilisation 
these  fruits  could  be  more  frequently  obtained  on  cultivated  plants,  but, 
as  with  other  Asclepiads,  the  method  of  fertilisation  is  strangely  different 
8  inches  from  tip  to  tip  of  the  two  lobes,  hut  occasionally  only  one  of  !  froui  most  plants,  and  a  good  idea  of  the  arrangement  of  the  organs  can 
these  is  produced  or  becomes  fully  developed.  The  surface  is  curiously  be  obtained  from  a  careful  examination  of  one  of  our  common  hardy 
wrinkled  or  puckered,  and  when  ripe  it  assumes  a  rich  orange  colour,  and  Asclepias. 
