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| Keywords: The field and garden vegetables of America (Page 612) (6002099421).jpg 612 <br> MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES <br> It is the earliest hardiest and most productive of all varie- <br> ties The plants frequently produce five or six fruits each ; <br> but the first formed are generally the largest <br> If sown in the open ground early in May the plants will <br> often perfect a portion of their fruit ; but they are most pro- <br> ductive when started in a hot-bed <br> The fruit is sometimes eaten cooked in the manner of the <br> Purple varieties but is less esteemed <br> MARTYNIA <br> Unicorn Plant Gray Martynia proboscidea <br> A hardy annual plant with a strong branching stem two <br> feet and a half or three feet high The leaves are large <br> heart-shaped entire or undulated doAvny viscous and of a <br> peculiar musk-like odor when bruised or roughly handled ; <br> the flowers are large bell- <br> shaped somewhat two- <br> lipped dull-white tinged <br> or spotted with yellow <br> and purple and produced <br> in long leafless racemes <br> or clusters ; the seed-pods <br> are green very downy or <br> hairy fleshy oval an inch <br> and a half in their great- <br> est diameter and taper <br> The Martynia tO a ldlg COllipa HI t \ Ay <br> slender incurved horn or beak The fleshy succulent <br> character of the pods is of short duration they soon become <br> fibrous the elongated beak splits at the point the two parts <br> diverge the outer green covering falls off and the pod be- <br> comes black shrivelled hard and woody The seeds are 29062950 92326 42073 Page 612 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/29062950 1863 10 5962/bhl title 42073 Burr Fearing NameFound Martynia NameConfirmed Martynia L EOLID 61735 NameFound Martynia proboscidea NameConfirmed Martynia proboscidea Gloxin EOLID 492400 NameBankID 617768 Biodiversity Heritage Library The field and garden vegetables of America United States Varieties Vegetable gardening Vegetables Library Congress bhl page 29062950 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/29062950 united states Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2011-08-02 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/6002099421 2015-09-10 20 56 06 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The field and garden vegetables of America Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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