. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . for planting on dry, rocky, sterilebanks, where most bushes find great difficulty in secur-ing a foothold. S. argentea succeeds better in the upperMississippi valley than in the eastern states. Staminateand pistillate plants of it have different forms of buds. The genus Shepherdia
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . for planting on dry, rocky, sterilebanks, where most bushes find great difficulty in secur-ing a foothold. S. argentea succeeds better in the upperMississippi valley than in the eastern states. Staminateand pistillate plants of it have different forms of buds. The genus Shepherdia was founded by Nuttall in is said that Rafinesques Lepargyraea, 1817, is equiv-alent, and the species have been placed under thelatter name by recent writers. A. its, green , Nutt. (Lepargyrwa Canadensis, Greene).Spreading twiggy bush 3 to 6 or even 8 ft. tall, theyoung branches brown-scurfy: Ivs. ovate, oval orelliptic, rather thick, green above but rusty beneath:fis. yellowish, in short clusters at the nodes: fr. small(34 in. or less long), oval, red or yellow, insipid. Alongstreams and on lake banks, Newfoundland to BritishColumbia and in the northern tier of states, and south-ward in the mountains to Utah. —Little known in cult.,but has been offered by dealers in native 2321. Shortia galacifolia (X %). (See page 1664.) AA. Zrvs. silvery above. argentea, Nutt. {L. arginfea, Greene). BuffaloBerry. Fig. 282, Vol. I. Upright shrub, or sometimesalmost tree-form,.reaching 18 ft. tall, thorny, the younggrowth silvery-tomentose: Ivs. oblong, cuneate-oblongoroblong-lanceolate, silvery on both sides: fis. yellowish,in dense small fascicles at the nodes: fr. globular orovoid, about J4 in. long, red or yellow, acid, to Minn., west and north. See Buffalo Berry. S. rotundifbUa, Parry, from Utah, is a silvery tomentose andscurfy evergreen busli: Ivs. round-oval or ovate, mostly some-what cordate, short-petioled: tls. stalked in the axils of
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