"The cocoa, or as it should be written,cacao, tree is an evergreen, and it said to bear some resemblance…
"The most common variety of the flax plant has a very slender erect stem, two or three feet high, branching…
"An evergreen of the laurel family, having glossy leaves and bearing clusters of yellowish flowers,…
The nutmeg trees are genus of the evergreen tree. The flowers grown on the nutmeg tree can be used as…
" Our engraving represents a wonderfully singular and beautiful plant, which grows among the mountains…
"Flowers often grow out of the cacti in a very unexpected fashion and of very curious forms. We give…
A small cruciferous plant, growing in arid Arabia and Palestine. When full grown and ripe its leaves…
A circular window, divided into compartments by mullions and tracery radiating from a centre, also called…
"Flower of a buttercup (Ranunculus sp.); a, b, normal, showing 5 petals; c, d, petalody of stamens;…
"Rue anemone (Anemonella thalictroides). 1, normal flower with 5 petals; 3, petalody of stamens; 4,…
"Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia). a, stamens in their original position, with the anthers in the…
"Sections of flowers of the toad-flax (Linaria vulgaris). A, front view; a, anthers; s, stigma; n, nectar-gland.…
"Toad-flax (Linaria vulgaris). Inflorescence, showing normal (spurred) flowers, and several abnormal…
"Toad-flax (Linaria vulgaris). Abnormal flowers (pelories), having five or more spurs. Normal, one-spurred…
"Toad-flax (Linaria vulgaris). Flowers being visited by an insect for nectar. B, longitudinal section,…
"Inflorescence and flowers of the burdock (Arctium minus). a, Inflorescences; b, longitudinal section…
"Chicory (Cichorium Intybus). A, portion of flowering branch; B, basal leaf (runcinate-pinnatifid);…
"A composite (Coreopsis sp.). A, B, E, views of the inflorescence or head; C, a ray-flower; D, section…
"Foxtail grass, the common name given to certain grasses, because of the shape of the large clusters…
"They feed on honey extracted from flowers and the sap from the sugar-cane, the juice of which they…
"They derive nourishment from flowers, deposit their eggs on caterpillars, and the young larvae on hatching…
"Bunch together seven fine, strong seed-grass stalks and tie just below the blossoms, with the root-end…
"Bunch together seven fine, strong seed-grass stalks and tie just below the blossoms, with the root-end…
"Nature, pervades the air, where grow the modest blue-eyed violets, the fragrant trailing arbutus, spicy…
"A may-basket which can be made in a moment is simply a bright-colored paper six inches long and three…
"Make the little vases of large punk rosebuds; those begining to unfold are the best. Peel off the outside…
"Use the entire blossom mingled with buds and green leaves, all short stemmed, not longer than three…
The creosote is a sticky, resinous bush with small round evergreen leaves, yellow flowers, woolly fruit,…
The acacia have small leaves and very small yellow flowers in dense spherical or cylindrical heads.…
Amole has a cluster of thick spiny-margined leaves, from which arises a stem an inch or two in diameter,…
Lilies are herbaceous flowering plants normally grown from bulbs. They are large showy flowering garden…
"Tonina fluviatilis. 1. male flower; 2. centre of do.; 3. female and male flowers; 4. section of ripe…