PREFACE.
REFERENCE TO ILLUSTRATIONS OF PLANTS OTHER THAN THOSE FIGURED IN THIS WORK.
Sect. I. Roots Tuberous.
Sect. II. Roots Fibrous or Napiform.
CONTENTS
ARISTOLOCHIA ELEGANS.
THE
ILLUSTRATED
DICTIONARY OF GARDENING,
A PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC
Encyclopædia 
of 
Horticulture
FOR
GARDENERS AND BOTANISTS.
EDITED BY
GEORGE NICHOLSON,
Of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
ASSISTED BY PROFESSOR J. W. H. TRAIL, A.M., M.D., F.L.S., IN THE PARTS RELATING TO INSECTS AND FUNGI;
AND J. GARRETT IN THE FRUIT, VEGETABLE, AND GENERAL GARDEN WORK PORTIONS.
DIVISION I.—A TO CAR.
PUBLISHED BY
L. UPCOTT GILL, 170, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.
SOLE AGENT FOR THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA,
JAMES PENMAN, NEW YORK.
1887.
LONDON: PRINTED BY A. BRADLEY, 170, STRAND.
HE ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF GARDENING aims at being thebest and most complete Work on Gardening and Garden Plants hithertopublished. The aim is, indeed, a high one; but the Publisher, whose tastefor Flowers has rendered th