. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 1016. Halesia tetraptera [XVa). AA. Length of lvs. 4-8 in. B. Nerves many, multiline&ta, Meissn. Tree or tall shrub : lvs. flat, 6-8 in. long, with many very fine nerves: fls. pink, in ulicina, R. Br. Lvs usually
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 1016. Halesia tetraptera [XVa). AA. Length of lvs. 4-8 in. B. Nerves many, multiline&ta, Meissn. Tree or tall shrub : lvs. flat, 6-8 in. long, with many very fine nerves: fls. pink, in ulicina, 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 short, straight beak. —The foli- age resembles the Euro- pean furze. -^ jj, HALfiSIA (Stephen Hale, 1077-1761, author of a famous work on "Vegetable Statics"). Syn., Mohrodindron. Styracdcece. Silver Bell. Snowdrop Tree. The common Snowdrop Tree (L[. 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, membranous, ovate-oblong, acuminate, more or less denticulate, slender-petioled, deciduous, light gi'een: inflorescence lateral: fls. snow- white, bell-shaped, drooping, on slender pedicels, in fascicles or short racemes along the whole length of the branches, borne in the axils of lvs. of the preceding year; calyx obconical, slightly 4-8- toothed, aduate to the3—4-celled ovary; corolla bell- shaped, epigynous, 4-5 cleft or parted nearly to the base; stamens 8-16 : ovary 2-4-celled, 4 ovul
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