The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . O 3 „, dfl .3 «o. THE SOURWOOD (Oxydendrum arboreum) This is a heath, as the long compound raceme of prim little flower bells and the dry little seed capsules prove. Thefoliage is a beautiful bronze-green in spring and becomes a vivid scarlet in autumn. The sour twigs and leaves allay the thirstof hunters lost in southern woods. Hardy to Boston, this little-known species deserves wide cultivation CHAPTER LVI: THE HEATHS THE RHODODENDRON AND THE MOUNTAIN LAUREL Family Ericaceae Trees
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . O 3 „, dfl .3 «o. THE SOURWOOD (Oxydendrum arboreum) This is a heath, as the long compound raceme of prim little flower bells and the dry little seed capsules prove. Thefoliage is a beautiful bronze-green in spring and becomes a vivid scarlet in autumn. The sour twigs and leaves allay the thirstof hunters lost in southern woods. Hardy to Boston, this little-known species deserves wide cultivation CHAPTER LVI: THE HEATHS THE RHODODENDRON AND THE MOUNTAIN LAUREL Family Ericaceae Trees usually of small size and high ornamental simple, alternate, mostly evergreen. Flowers perfect,regular, in many-flowered clusters. Fruits, dry capsules orberry-like drupes. KEY TO GENERA AND SPECIES A. Leaves evergreen or sub-evergreen. B. Flowers large, showy; fruit a 5-celled Capsules conical; flower clusters terminal. 1. Genus RHODODENDRON, Linn. (R. maximum) great rhododendronCC. Capsules globular; flower clusters axillary. 2. Genus KALMIA, Linn. (K. latifolia) mountain laurelBB. Flowers small, i
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