. 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. COKNUS or pinkish, 3-4 in. wide; bracts 4, obovate, emarginate: fr. Kin. long, scarlet. May. Massachusetts to Florida, west to Ontario and Texas, also E. and S. Mexico. 5:112-13. Em. 468. :431. 526. Gn. 52, p. 177; 53, p. 222. III. 28 of the most beautiful American flowering trees ;
. 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. COKNUS or pinkish, 3-4 in. wide; bracts 4, obovate, emarginate: fr. Kin. long, scarlet. May. Massachusetts to Florida, west to Ontario and Texas, also E. and S. Mexico. 5:112-13. Em. 468. :431. 526. Gn. 52, p. 177; 53, p. 222. III. 28 of the most beautiful American flowering trees ; hardy north. Var. p6ndula, Hort. With pendulous branches. Var. rilbra, Hort. With pink in- volucre, but less free-flowering than the type. E. H. 1894:500. 18:441. P. E. 9:572. Neither variety as hardy as the type. 14. Niittalli, And. Tree, to 80 ft.: Ivs. ovate or obovate, usu- ally pubescent beneath, 4-5 in. long: involucre white or tinged with pink, 4-6 in. across; bracts 4-6, ob- long or obovate, some- times roundish, mostly acute : fr. bright red ororange,crowned with the broad, persistent calyx. Brit. Columbia to S. Calif, 5:214-15. Gng. 6 species surpasses the former in beauty, but is more tender and has not yet been successfully cultivated outside of its native country, though introduced at several times into different American and European gardens. DD. J'l-s. connate into a globular fleshy head. {Benthamia.) 15. Koiisa, Buerg. (Benth&mia Japdnica, ; Zucc. G. Japdn ica, Koehne, not Thunbg.). Shrub or small tree, to 20 ft.: Ivs. cuneate, eUiptic-ovate, acuminate, dark green above, glaucous and appressed-pubescent beneath, 2-4 in. long : involucre creamy white, 2X-3 in. wide ; bracts ovate, acute: frs. forming a globular head. June. Japan, China. 16. Gn. 43: 898 HI. 19:783. 13:674. Gng. 3:149. III. 35:9. 1899:328-9. —Fls. very showy, appearing after the Ivs. in June and contrasting well with the bright green fo
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