THE

STANDARD CYCLOPEDIA OF

HORTICULTURE

A DISCUSSION, FOR THE AMATEUR, AND THE PROFESSIONAL AND
COMMERCIAL GROWER, OF THE KINDS, CHARACTERISTICS AND
METHODS OF CULTIVATION OF THE SPECIES OF PLANTS GROWN IN
THE REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA FOR ORNAMENT,
FOR FANCY, FOR FRUIT AND FOR VEGETABLES; WITH KEYS TO THE
NATURAL FAMILIES AND GENERA, DESCRIPTIONS OF THE HORTI-
CULTURAL CAPABILITIES OF THE STATES AND PROVINCES AND
DEPENDENT ISLANDS, AND SKETCHES OF EMINENT HORTICULTURISTS

BY

L. H. BAILEY

Illustrated with Colored Plates, Four Thousand Engravings in the Text,
and Ninety-six Full-page Cuts

IN SIX VOLUMES

VOL. III-F-K

PAGES 1201-1760. FIGS. 1471-2047

SECOND EDITION

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1917

The rights of reproduction and of translation are strictly reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1900

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

REWRITTEN, ENLARGED AND RESET

COPYRIGHT, 1915

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set Up and Electrotyped. Published May 12, 1915
Reprinted May, 1917

Mount Pleasant Press
J. HORACE MCFARLAND COMPANY
HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

FULL-PAGE PLATES

Facing page

XL. Formal gardening, with veronica and phlox in the foreground (in color)

XLV. Ferns in a public garden, with springtime bloom (in color)

1307

XLVI. Type of an old-time formal garden.-Washington's garden at Mt. Vernon

1315

LVI. Roman hyacinth.-One of the forms of Hyacinthus orientalis

1614

LVII. A night-blooming cactus.-Hylocereus tricostatus in Hawaii. Hedge planted by

Sibyl Moseley Bingham between 1831 and 1840 .

1625

LVIII. One of the many beautiful garden irises.-Probably one of the hybrid or deriva-

tive forms of the germanica group.

1657

LIX. Japanese irises.-Iris lævigata

1675

LX. The black walnut.-Juglans nigra

1717

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