. 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. sequently from the same nodes: calyx coroUa-lilse,yellowish, campanulate, undulately obscurely 4-toothed,bearing twice as many exserted stamens as its lobes(usually 8): ovary nearly sessile, free, 1-loculed, with asingle hanging ovule; style exserted, filiform: fr. berry-like, oval-oblong. Hardy deciduous branching shrub
. 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. sequently from the same nodes: calyx coroUa-lilse,yellowish, campanulate, undulately obscurely 4-toothed,bearing twice as many exserted stamens as its lobes(usually 8): ovary nearly sessile, free, 1-loculed, with asingle hanging ovule; style exserted, filiform: fr. berry-like, oval-oblong. Hardy deciduous branching shrubs,often with the habit of miniature trees. Bark of inter-laced, strong fibers, and branches so tough and flexiblethat they may be bent into hoops and thongs withoutbreaking. So used by the Indians and early Leatherwood is not one of the showiest of hardyshrubs, but its small, yellowish flowers are abundantenough to make it attractive, and it deserves cultivationespecially for the earliness of its bloom in spring. It isof slow growth, and, when planted singly, makes a com-pact miniature tree; planted in masses or under shadeit assumes a straggling habit. It thrives in any moistloam. Prop, by .seeds, which are abundant and germi-nate readily; also by 720. Leatherwood—Dirca palustris ( paliiBtris, Linn. Leatherwood. Moosewood. A shrub, 2-G ft. high, with numerous brancheshaving scars which make them appear as if jointed, atthe beginning of each annual growth, and with yellow-brown glabrous twigs: Ivs. oval or obovate, with obtuseapex, 2-3 in. long, green and smooth above, whitish anddowny below, becoming smooth, the base of the petiolecovering buds of the next season: fls. yellowish, abun-dant enough to be attractive, nearly sessile, Jiin. long,falling as the Ivs. expand: fr. hidden by the abundantfoliage, egg-or top-shaped, J^ In. long, reddish or palegreen. Woods and thickets, mostly in wet soil N. and 4 D. occidentdlis. A. Gr
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