. 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. w or partially scarlet m fallIt prefers rich and moist soil, and grows rapidly whenyoung. Prop, by seeds, sown in spring, and by green-wood-cuttings, taken from forced plants in early spring,or by layers ; cuttings from half-ripened wood in sum-mer, under glass, grow also, but not very well. Japdnicum, Sieb. & Zucc. Bush


. 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. w or partially scarlet m fallIt prefers rich and moist soil, and grows rapidly whenyoung. Prop, by seeds, sown in spring, and by green-wood-cuttings, taken from forced plants in early spring,or by layers ; cuttings from half-ripened wood in sum-mer, under glass, grow also, but not very well. Japdnicum, Sieb. & Zucc. Bushy tree, usually 20-30 ft.,but sometimes rising to 100 ft., with slender, glabrousbranches : Ivs. opposite, occasionally alternate, slenderpetioled, cordate, orbicular or broadly ovate, obtuse, cre-nate-serrate, glabrous, glaucous beneath, 2-3 in. 7:106,107, and G: 53. Mn. 3:74. Gng. 5— A very desirable tree, one of the best of the newerintroductions from Japan. Alfred Rehder. C£BCIS (Aci-iis, ancient Greek name). Tree. Red Bud. Trees or shrubs : Ivs. decidu-ous, alternate, petioled, palmately nerted, entire : , pedicelled, pink or red, appearing beforeor with the Ivs., in clusters or racemes from the old. 411. Cercis Canadi -wood: calyx 5-toothed, red: petals nearly equal, the up-permost somewhat smaller : pod compressed, narrow-oblong, narrow-winged on the ventrical suture, many- CERCOCAEPUS seeded. Seven species in N. America, and from S. Europeto Japan. Very ornamental trees or shrubs, with hand-some, distinct foliage and abundant showy fls. in spring,very effective by their deep pink color. They are welladaped for shrubberies oras single specimens onthe lawn, and attain rarelymore than 20 or 30 ft. inheight forming a broadirregular head when olderOnl\ C Canadensis is]i u h II ith while none ofIl Till < an be grown11 lulh farther north 111 \ Vork Thev SUM, s \<uii„ plants, 4or 5 years old, produce


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