. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 286 Ericacecc—A za lea. Leaves Persistent. The species belonging to this division are not so hardy as the foregoing, and usually treated as greenhouse plants. They are usually of smaller more compact growth. The Indian Azaleas have sprung from A. Indica (fig. 160), and some other species or natural varieties introduced from China. Some of these forms, a
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 286 Ericacecc—A za lea. Leaves Persistent. The species belonging to this division are not so hardy as the foregoing, and usually treated as greenhouse plants. They are usually of smaller more compact growth. The Indian Azaleas have sprung from A. Indica (fig. 160), and some other species or natural varieties introduced from China. Some of these forms, as A. liliifldra (fig. 161), are said to be quite hardy. 9. KALMIA. Evergreen shrubs usually of small stature and compact habit. Leaves alternate, entire. Plowers solitary or corymbose, hemispherical or broadly campanulate. This genus is remark- able for having projecting cavities in the corolla holding tlie stamens until they are mature, when the slightest touch of the filaments will release them and cause the anthers to discharge their pollen. There are about half-a-dozen species, all natives of North America. This genus was named in honour of a Swedish botanist. 1. K. latifolia (fig. 162). Calico Bush, Mountain Laurel.— This is the handsomest of the group, having shining alternate foliage of a pleas- ing verdure, and dense clusters of exquisitely ele- gant delicate pink, rose or nearly white flowers, pro- duced from May to July. 2. K. angustifdlia. Sheep Laurel or Lambkill.—In this species the leaves are usually opposite or in threes, and narrower, and the flowers are of a deeper colour and smaller, than in the last. 3. K. glaiica.—A strag- gling shrub with com- pressed 2-odged branches and nearly sessile glaucous leaves with revoluto margins. Corymbs few-flowered; flowers lilac- purple, produced in April. K. hirsuta has hairy leaves and soli- tary axillary rosy flowers. This shrub grows about a foot Fig. 162. Kalmia lutifoliu. (J nat. size.). Please note that
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