The field and garden vegetables of America (Page 612) (6002099421)

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Description: 612 MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES. It is the earliest, hardiest, and most productive of all varie- ties. The plants frequently produce five or six fruits each ; but the first formed are generally the largest. If sown in the open ground early in May, the plants will often perfect a portion of their fruit ; but they are most pro- ductive when started in a hot-bed. The fruit is sometimes eaten cooked in the manner of the Purple varieties, but is less esteemed. MARTYNIA. Unicorn Plant. Gray. Martynia proboscidea. A hardy, annual plant, with a strong, branching stem two feet and a half or three feet high. The leaves are large, heart-shaped, entire or undulated, doAvny, viscous, and of a peculiar, musk-like odor when bruised or roughly handled ; the flowers are large, bell- shaped, somewhat two- lipped, dull-white, tinged or spotted with yellow and purple, and produced in long, leafless racemes, or clusters ; the seed-pods are green, very downy or hairy, fleshy, oval, an inch and a half in their great- est diameter, and taper The Martynia. tO a ldlg, COllipa HI t. Ay slender, incurved horn, or beak. The fleshy, succulent character of the pods is of short duration: they soon become fibrous, the elongated beak splits at the point, the two parts diverge, the outer green covering falls off, and the pod be- comes black, shrivelled, hard, and woody. The seeds are. Date: 1863. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6002099421. Author: Burr, Fearing. Full titleThe field and garden vegetables of America: containing full descriptions of nearly eleven hundred species and varieties; with directions for propagation, culture, and use. By Fearing Burr, Jr... Page ID29062950. Item ID92326 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images). Title ID42073 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images). Page numbersPage 612. NamesNameFound:Martynia NameConfirmed:Martynia L. EOLID:61735 NameFound:Martynia proboscidea NameConfirmed:Martynia proboscidea Gloxin EOLID:492400 NameBankID:617768. BHL Page URLhttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29062950. DOI10.5962/bhl.title.42073. Page typeText. Flickr sets The field and garden vegetables of America. Flickr tags United States Varieties Vegetable gardening Vegetables Library Congress bhl:page 29062950 dc:identifier https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29062950 united states. Flickr posted date2 August 2011. Credit : This file comes from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. Deutsch | English | español | français | italiano | 日本語 | македонски | Nederlands | polski | +/−.