The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . is beautiful plant is from tlieHimalayas, at an elevation of 5500 to 7500 feet above the level of the sea; it bearsthe winters in England with only theprotection of a wall, and flowers fromthe beginning of February until May,scenting the atmosphere around withits fragrance. Description. — A shrub, twelve orfourteen feet high. Branches oppo-site, obtusely tetragonal, the youngerones densely covered with tawny orferruginous down. Leaves on woolypetioles, ovate or oblong, the lowerones cordate at the base, upper onescuneate, thick, tom
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . is beautiful plant is from tlieHimalayas, at an elevation of 5500 to 7500 feet above the level of the sea; it bearsthe winters in England with only theprotection of a wall, and flowers fromthe beginning of February until May,scenting the atmosphere around withits fragrance. Description. — A shrub, twelve orfourteen feet high. Branches oppo-site, obtusely tetragonal, the youngerones densely covered with tawny orferruginous down. Leaves on woolypetioles, ovate or oblong, the lowerones cordate at the base, upper onescuneate, thick, tomentose, densely sobeneath; the margins toothed andcrisped, rarely entire, except in theupper leaves. Flowers arranged incapitula, or in dense whorls, consti-tuting spikes or racemes, and forming-panicles. Corolla, salver-shaped, lilac,with a white eye. Stamens four, in-serted below the middle, and quiteincluded; filaments short, anthersshort, oblong. Pistil quite ovate, downy, except at the very base. Style very short; stigma clubbed, Uncommon Growth.—There is hanging in our oflBce, the forked bough of an apple tree,each part of ?which measures only 22 inches in length, on which there are one hundredand forty seven apples! thicker upon the wood than human ingenuity could possibly are of an average diameter of two and a half inches, and the weight of the branchis 13 lbs. It was cut from a tree on the premises of Mr. John Haley in the western partof the city, and is called the Anti-Know-Nothing Apple, from its great yield.—.Haven Register.
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