. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. stigmas project more in every d Blooms in the CC. Fls. pink, in lo / ulicina, R. Br. Lv usually linear-lanceolate or linear, pungent, 4-8 in. long, prominently 1 3-nerved beneath: pen anth and pedicels gla brous: f r. rarely above ' in. long, with a short straight beak
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. stigmas project more in every d Blooms in the CC. Fls. pink, in lo / ulicina, R. Br. Lv usually linear-lanceolate or linear, pungent, 4-8 in. long, prominently 1 3-nerved beneath: pen anth and pedicels gla brous: f r. rarely above ' in. long, with a short straight f I age resembles the Eur pean furze. â ^. jj HALfiSIA (Ste Hale, 1077-1761, author of a famous work on '" Vegetable Statics ) Syn., Mohrodendion Slyrac&cece. Bell. Snowdrop Tree The common Snowdrop Tree {ff. tetrdi)tera) is a fine, hardy, small-size 1 tree, which is covei 1 with a bewildering cloudy mass of small snowy white flov borne about the middle of May, before the foil age of the tree appears. The genus has only 4 species, and is exclu- sively North Americ if we place the Japanese IT. his/.i,!,, t-euus Ptcro^tM-ax ,.,..inof the iiiilcrescence and smaller and fleshitr fruit. SuiiiU trtr^ anil shrubs, more or less stellate pu- bescent: lvs. rather large, membranous, ovate-oblong, acuminate, more or less denticulate, slender-petioled, deciduous, light green: inflorescence lateral: fls. snow- white, bell-shaped, drooping, on slender pedicels, in fascicles or short racemes along the whole length of the branches, borne iu the axils of lvs. of the preceding year ; calyx obconical, slightly 4-8- toothed, adnate to the 3-4-celled ovary; corolla bell- shaped, epigynous, 4-5 cleft or parted nearly to the base; stamens 8-lG : ovary 2-4-celled, 4 ovules in cell: fr. a drupe, dry, oblong, longitudinally 2-4- winged, tipped with the style and minute calv eeth. 1016. Halesia tetraptera AA. Length of lvs. 4-S in. B. JS-erves many. multilin
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