. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. (Foliage X 1-1 A. Foliage of large, broadly ovate-elliptical varie- gated Ivs., not pronouncedly distichous. niTdsuB, Smith. Snow-bush. Shrub of loose habit, with dark wiry somewhat zigzag branches: Ivs. 1-2 in. long, obtuse, white and green mottled: fl. small, green-
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. (Foliage X 1-1 A. Foliage of large, broadly ovate-elliptical varie- gated Ivs., not pronouncedly distichous. niTdsuB, Smith. Snow-bush. Shrub of loose habit, with dark wiry somewhat zigzag branches: Ivs. 1-2 in. long, obtuse, white and green mottled: fl. small, green- ish, discoid, hanging by long pedicels from the leaf axils. S. Sea Islands. 1874:120. 25 Var. Tdseo-pictus, Hort. Lvs. mottled with pink and red as well as white and green. Gn. 10, p. 2lil. P. 1878, p. 13. — Used in the house and for bedding out in summer. AA. Foliage of narrowly elliptical or ovate, distinctly distichous green Ivs, £mblica, Linn. Emblic Myrobolan. A much- branched shrub or small tree: foliage branches with many linear-elliptical, obtuse Ivs., which are close to- gether and }4-% in. long: fls. small, short-pedicelled in the axils of the lower Ivs.: capsule baccate, %~l in. in diam. E. Indian region. 6 used raw or preserved: foliage handsome. distichus, Muell. (Cicca dlsticha, Linn.). Otaheite Gooseberry. Fig. 1771. Shrub, with ovate acute Itts. 1-2 in. long: fls. on separate branches below the foliage: fr. fleshy, edible. India and Madagascar. —W. Harris, of Hope Gardens, Jamaica, W. I., writes that the Ota- heite gooseberry is an elegant shrub or small tree often cultivated in gardens in the lowlands of Jamaica and the West Indies. The fruit is very acid and astringent; the root is an active purgative, and the seed is also cathartic. The fruit is occasionally pickled, or made into preserves. Plants are raised from seeds. pdlcher, Wall. (P. pallidifdlius, Miill. P. glaucfs- cens, Hort. 1 Reidia glauc^scens, Miq.). A small
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