. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. 296 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS Swamp Bay (514) — Persea pubfecens, — wild from North Carolina south, is a small tree or shrub with the branchlets and other parts hairy, creamy white flowers (J inch), and dark blue drupes f inch long. Alligator ' Pear ' (515) — Persea gratfasima, — of California, and Florida, has a slightly pear-shaped green fruit, several inches long, used as a salad and very palatable. A tree 20 to 30 feet high. [Layers; twig cuttings.]. Fig. 522. — White Garland Daphne. Fig. 523. — Silky Daphne. Sassafras.
. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. 296 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS Swamp Bay (514) — Persea pubfecens, — wild from North Carolina south, is a small tree or shrub with the branchlets and other parts hairy, creamy white flowers (J inch), and dark blue drupes f inch long. Alligator ' Pear ' (515) — Persea gratfasima, — of California, and Florida, has a slightly pear-shaped green fruit, several inches long, used as a salad and very palatable. A tree 20 to 30 feet high. [Layers; twig cuttings.]. Fig. 522. — White Garland Daphne. Fig. 523. — Silky Daphne. Sassafras. Sassafras (516) — Sassafras variif61ium (S. officinMe) — is an aromatic shrub or tree growing in some cases to the height of 100 feet. It has alternate simple entire to 3-lobed leaves without notches or serrations. As the plant is dioecious, only those with pistillate flowers have the blue 1-seeded fruit, J inch long, on red stems. Tlie flowers bloom be- fore the leaves are expanded. The bark on young twigs is green with a purplish shade on the light side. The bark of the roots is peculiarly aromatic, and is often used in beer making. [Seeds ; suckers ; root cuttings.] Capparis. This genus of over 100 mostly tropic plants is here repre- sented by the one species fiom which the genus is named, Caper-bcsh (517) or Caper-tree — Capparis spinbsa, — from which capers are made. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig), 1838-1908; Draycott, Ada (Apgar). New York, Cincinnati [etc] American Book Company
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