. 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. 1016. Halesia tetraptera (X%). AA. Length of lvs. 4S in. B. Nerves many. mnltilineata, Meissn. Tree or tall shrub : lvs. flat, 6-8 in. long, with many very fine nerves: fls. pink, in an oblong racemewhich is 1-3 in. long. III. 19:85. — Int. in 1899 by Mrs. T. B. Shepherd, who says that there are 5 or more
. 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. 1016. Halesia tetraptera (X%). AA. Length of lvs. 4S in. B. Nerves many. mnltilineata, Meissn. Tree or tall shrub : lvs. flat, 6-8 in. long, with many very fine nerves: fls. pink, in an oblong racemewhich is 1-3 in. long. III. 19:85. — Int. in 1899 by Mrs. T. B. Shepherd, who says that there are 5 or more racemes in a bunch. BB. Nerves few, IS. C. Fls. red, in globular heads. laurina, E. Br. Tall shrub, attaining 10 ft.: lvs. 4-G in. long, 3- or 5-nerved, often sickle-shaped, on long petioles : fls. in a globular head, 13^-2 in. thick, from which the numerous showy white stigmas project 1 in. or more in every direction. Blooms in the Califor- nian winter. 7127. II. 23 Sea Urchin on the Ri- viera. cc. Fls. pink, in long racemes. uliclna, R. Br. Lvs. usually linear-lanceolate or linear, pungent, 4-8 in. long, prominently 1- 3-nerved beneath: peri- anth and pedicels gla- brous : fr. rarely above }4 in. long, with a shoi't, straight beak. —The foli- age resembles the Euro- pean furze. y\[_ jj, HALfiSIA (Stephen Hale, 1077-1761, author of a famous work on "Vegetable Statics"). S y n., Mohrodendron. Styraccicece. Silver Bell. Snowdrop Tree. The common Snowdrop Tree (H. tetraptera) is a fine, hardy, small-sized tree, which is covered with a bewildering, cloudy mass of small, snowy white flowers, borne about the middle of May, before the foli- age of the tree appears. The genus has only 4 species, and is exclu- sively North American, if we place the Japanese H. hispida in the genus Pterostyrax by reason of the subterminal inflorescence and smaller and fleshier fruit. Small trees and shrubs, more or less stellate pu- bescent: lvs. rather large, membran
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