. 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. 604 FORSYTHIA lanceolate, always simple and generally serrate only above the middle, very dark green, 3-U in. long : fls. about 1 in. long ; corolla with rather narrow, twisted lobes of bright, somewhat greenish yellow ; calyx about half as longas tube. 4587.
. 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. 604 FORSYTHIA lanceolate, always simple and generally serrate only above the middle, very dark green, 3-U in. long : fls. about 1 in. long ; corolla with rather narrow, twisted lobes of bright, somewhat greenish yellow ; calyx about half as longas tube. 4587. 3:261. 33:39. — Less hardy and graceful than the othe species. ^ & Bald., from Albania, has small, ovate- lanceolate, quite entire Ivs. Alfred Rehder. FOTHEBGlLLA (after John Pothergill, eminent Eng- lish physician, who introduced and cultivated many new plants, 1712-1780). MamamelidAcete. Hardy orna- mental shrubs, with alternate, deciduous, simple, dull green Its. and showy spikes of white fls. in spring with the Irs. : the distinct foliage resembles somewhat that of the alder, or more that of Hamamelis, 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 take two years to root; the first species by ami ;cit- cuttings. Two closely alln d --| h. i. - iii ilie 3. Alleghanies : low sliiub- with the branches densely stellate pMhH-( ent hs _., stipulate, dentate-crenate . tls in terminal «c__ spikes, perfect, apetalous ; calyx cam- FOXGLOVE m&jor, Lodd. {F. montieola, Ashe. F. alnifAUa, var. niAjor, 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}.2-5 in. long : spikes l}^-3 in. long, with 1-3 Ivs. atthe base : stamens 1^ in. long, white. 1342. 16 species is su
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