. 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. 604 FORSYTHIA FOXGLOVE lanceolate, always simple and grenerally serrate only above the middle, very darls green, 3-li in. long : fls. about 1 in. long ; corolla with rather narrow, twLsted lobes of bright, somewhat greenish yellow ; calyx about half as long as tube. 4587. 3:261. 33:39. — Less har
. 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. 604 FORSYTHIA FOXGLOVE lanceolate, always simple and grenerally serrate only above the middle, very darls green, 3-li in. long : fls. about 1 in. long ; corolla with rather narrow, twLsted lobes of bright, somewhat greenish yellow ; calyx about half as long as tube. 4587. 3:261. 33:39. — Less hardy and graceful than the other species. , Deg. & Bald., from Albania, has small, ovate- lanceolate, quite entire Ivs. ALFRED Rehdek. FOTHEEGlLLA (after John Fothergill, eminent Eng- lish physician, who introduced and cultivated many new plants, 1712-1780). Jlainamelid&cea), Hardy orna- mental shrubs, with alternate, deciduous, simple, dull green Ivs. and showy spikes of white fls. in spring with the Ivs. : the distinct foliage resembles somewhat that of the alder, or more that of Haraamelis, and turns yel- low late in fall. They grow best in moist, peaty or sandy soil. Prop, by seeds, not germinating until the second year, or by layers, which talce two years to root; the first species also by suclters and root- cuttings. Tvro closely allied species in the S. Alleghanies : low shrubs, with the branches densely stellate-pubescent; Ivs. stipulate, dentate-crenate : fls. in terminal perfect, apetalous ; calyx cam- mijor, Lodd. (F. monticola, Ashe. F. alnifdlia, var. mcijor, Sims). Bushy shrub, with upright branches, to 6 ft.: Ivs. broadly obovate or roundish, oval, cordate or truncate, coarsely crenate or undulate even to the base, sometimes nearly glabrous beneath, 2}{~5 in. long : spikes lK-3 in. long, with 1-3Ivs. attlie base : stamens Xin. long, white. 1342. 16 species is superior to the former on account of its dense, pyramidal habi
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