. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1680 SOLANUM more or less hairy: Ivs. ovate, sinuate or lobed, woolly beneath, usually prickly: Hs. blue, 1 in. or less across, triangular-lobed: berry globular, about % in. in diam., smooth, yellow. Tropical India, and in China and the Philippines.-Offered by Franceschi, S. Calif., who de- scribes the fls. as

. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1680 SOLANUM more or less hairy: Ivs. ovate, sinuate or lobed, woolly beneath, usually prickly: Hs. blue, 1 in. or less across, triangular-lobed: berry globular, about % in. in diam., smooth, yellow. Tropical India, and in China and the Philippines.-Offered by Franceschi, S. Calif., who de- scribes the fls. as  Stock Photo
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. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1680 SOLANUM more or less hairy: Ivs. ovate, sinuate or lobed, woolly beneath, usually prickly: Hs. blue, 1 in. or less across, triangular-lobed: berry globular, about % in. in diam., smooth, yellow. Tropical India, and in China and the Philippines.-Offered by Franceschi, S. Calif., who de- scribes the fls. as white. Variable. 15. T6rreyi, Gray. Strong pcioniiial herb, with close grayish pubescence an.l -iii-ii, ' . , il, i.ii.ll.-: Ivs. ovate, with subcordati'..r ! â ' ' 7 -iiiuate lobes, the mi<lrib priokl k i â rnies, nodding, 2 in. across, |..i[ .;..j.i, |^..; I i..bed, hand.sonie: berry 1 in. m ili;uii., ^luLulai, ..muviili, yel- low. Kans. to Tex. B.M. 64G1. 16. pyractothum, .Jacq. Small shrub, somewhat hairy, thickly beset with ferocious orange spines: Ivs. long and relatively narrow, pinnately irregularly lobed: fls. blue, with radiating white ribs, deeply lobed, about 1 in. across, drooping in small clusters: fr. globose, K in. or less in diam. Trop. Atr. B.M. 2.547. P.S. 23:2411. EE. Fls. mainly wliite. 17 marginibtum Linn f Shrubb 3-5 ft tall white tomentose bearing many straight but not very Ijirge bcordate shal t ^c with an iiiegular t tl sheldii gof the 1 if ( hence tl e name ni le a 1 s white 1 1 e 1 in f fld clus kly yellow Trop Afr I rub. lose or densely pubescent beneath, deeply several-lobed: fls. large, about IH in* across, white, numerous: fr. glabrous and shining, pale vellow. Probably South American. R.H. 1865, p. 430; 1896, p. 237.-A very strik- ing plant for subtroip- ical gardening and eas- ily raised from seed in a single season ; lialf-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re