. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Silverbell Tree 793 The wood is soft, strong, dense and light brown, its specific gravity about This very elegant plant with graceful branches and showy white flowers, makes a most desirable object for southern gardens; it is hardy as far north as south- eastern Pennsylvania. 2. SILVERBELL TREE — Halesia Carolina Linnaeus Halesia tetraptera Linnaeus. Mohrodendron carolinum Britten This very beautiful small tree or s
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Silverbell Tree 793 The wood is soft, strong, dense and light brown, its specific gravity about This very elegant plant with graceful branches and showy white flowers, makes a most desirable object for southern gardens; it is hardy as far north as south- eastern Pennsylvania. 2. SILVERBELL TREE — Halesia Carolina Linnaeus Halesia tetraptera Linnaeus. Mohrodendron carolinum Britten This very beautiful small tree or shrub is also known as the Snowdrop tree, Wild olive tree, Bell tree, Opossomwood, Calicowood, Tisswood, Peawood, and Rattle box. It occurs from West Virginia, to southern Illinois, and Arkansas, south- ward to central Florida, and eastern Texas, attaining its greatest dimensions of about 27 meters high, with a trunk diameter of i m. in the mountains of North Carolina and Termessee. The branches are stout and ascending. The bark is about 12 mm. thick, with rounded ridges, which separate into thin scales of a red-brown color. The twigs are slender, thickly hairy at first, soon becoming smooth or nearly so, and grayish brown. The leaves are thin and firm, oblong, oval or ovate, 5 to 17 cm. long, taper-pointed, narrowed or roimded at the base, finely toothed on the margin, hairy at first, soon becoming smooth except on the nerves, bright green above, paler and more or less hairy beneath, becoming bright yellow in autumn; the leaf-stalk is i to 2 cm. long. The flowers open from March to May, de- pendent upon location; they are in clusters or few-flowered racemes on the branches of the previous season, on slender, smooth, drooping pedicels to 5 cm. long; the calyx is 5 to 6 Fig 721 ^^ Silverbell Tree mm. long, smooth, its spreading lobes triangu- lar and sharp-pointed; the corolla is bell-shaped, 2 to cm. long, the lobes smooth, rounded, shorter than the tube; the 10 to 16
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