. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . ientnsune of the heath, from irico, to l)rcak). lli:.\TnFamily. FIj;. 4l). f^hriihs or siib-shruhs: leaves
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . ientnsune of the heath, from irico, to l)rcak). lli:.\TnFamily. FIj;. 4l). f^hriihs or siib-shruhs: leaves alter-nate, often evei-green: flowers bisexual, regular orslightly irregular; ealyx 4-r)-fid, persistent; corollagamopetalous, rarely poly pet alous, often urceolate, , convolute or imoricateil; stajnens alternatewith the petals, of the siune numl)er or double thenumber, inserted at the biuse of a hypogynoiis disk,not epipetalous; anthers; sometimes appendaged, o|)en-ing by terminal pores, rarely by longitudinal slits;o\ary su|)erior or inferior, 4-,)-celled or falsely 10-cellixl, manyovnk-d; style and stigraa 1; fruit a cap-sule, rarely a berr\- or drupe. The 67 genera and about 1,400 species are very gen-erally distributed. Erica, the largest genus, with 420species, is confined to the Old ^^orld. The family isclosely related to the Pyrolacea> and Clethraccie; alsoto the Epacridacejfi and Diapensiaece. The northernEricacea; are largely evergreen and variously adapted. 47. Diapex8Iace<e: 1. l-), a, flower; 6, floral ; 2. Primula, a, flower 6, floral diagram. Plum;BAGiNACEAi: 3. Armeria, flower. 4. Statice, calyx. 5. Plumbago,flordi diagram. in foliage to a xerophytic habitat. Ledum is polypeta-lous. Rhododendron has a funnel-form corolla; Kal-mia, a cup-shaped corolla with elastic stamens in pock-ets. The anthers of Kpig;ea dehisce longitudinally. Arctoslaphylos Uva-Ursi (bearberry) of Europe andAmerica is medicinal. The volatile oil
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