The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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3 entries in this part of The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening.

Yellow Slug

(Limax flavus). In its habits this Slug differs from the other Slugs, as it very frequently lives in cellars and other damp places in…

Yew-Bud Galls

The buds of the Yew (Taxus baccata) are liable to be injured by a Gall Midge, and also by a Gall Mite. The former (Cecidomyia Taxi)…

Yucca

(a native name of the genus). Adam's Needle; Bear's Grass; Spanish Bayonet. ORD. Liliaceae. A genus (comprising, according to Engelmann…

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