Identifier: meehansmonthlyma91899phil (find matches)
Title: Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Thomas Meehan & Sons
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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- hotel waiters, in a grandhotel, will no doubt be something in connec-tion with tree-planting that will make a last-ing impressionon the youthful mind. Botanic Gardens in Haavaii.—The U. S.Government ought surely to establish two ormore botanic gardens and arboretums in ournewly-acquired tropical possessions. C. W. G. VOL^IX, Plate N^ 3.
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ECHINOCACTUS WHIPPLEI. WHIPPLES ECHINOCACTUS. NATURAL ORDER, CACTACE^ ECHINOCACTUS WHIPPLEI, Engelmann. - Heads solitary, globose or ovate, middle-sized, with 13-15 compressed and inter-rupted ribs; of the 7 to 11 outer and 4 inner spines, the ivory-white upper ones are the longest and broadest and re-curved or twisted; the lower are shorter, darker, and terete, and the lowest middle one hooked; flowers one to one anda quarter inches long, yellow; few (one to five) rounded, fringed sepals on the ovary, ten to fifteen oblong ones on thetube; petals about eight, stigmas five to seven, short; seeds large, minutely tuberculated. Heads three to five incheshigh; spines three to twenty or twenty-four lines long, on prominent tubercles, which give the ribs a wavy or inter-rupted appearance. Watsons Botany of the Geological Survey of California. As a rule there is no more constant characterin a member of the cactus family than the colorof the flowers. Cactuses are variable in man^-respects, bu

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