. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. SOPHORA 111 J. Small, slightly hairy leayes. Evergreen Sumach (124) — Rhus integrifblia. J. Larger and smoother leaves. Rhus ov^ta. Sophbra. The Sophoras form a rather large group of evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and herbs, but few of them are in cultivation in America. The leaves are alternate, odd-pinnate, and in the different species range in number of blades from 5 to over 50. The clustered white, pinkish, purplish, or yellow pea-like flowers are in most species less than an inch long, but in one of the evergree
. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. SOPHORA 111 J. Small, slightly hairy leayes. Evergreen Sumach (124) — Rhus integrifblia. J. Larger and smoother leaves. Rhus ov^ta. Sophbra. The Sophoras form a rather large group of evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and herbs, but few of them are in cultivation in America. The leaves are alternate, odd-pinnate, and in the different species range in number of blades from 5 to over 50. The clustered white, pinkish, purplish, or yellow pea-like flowers are in most species less than an inch long, but in one of the evergreen species are nearly 2 inches long. The fruit. Fig. 125.—Japan Pagoda Tree. Fig. 126.—Coral Bean. is a jointed pod, resembling a string of beads with a globular seed in each joint. The evergreen species can be grown only in the Gulf states and southern California. The commonest species in cultivation, Japan Pagoda Tree (125) — Sophora japdnica — is a slow-growing, generally shrubby plant with 11 to 21 oblong blades. The bark of the young twigs is green. The cream-white clustered flowers bloom in the late summer. This some- times grows to the height of 50 feet. [Seeds ; twig cuttings ; layers].. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig), 1838-1908; Draycott, Ada (Apgar). New York, Cincinnati [etc] American Book Company
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