. Practical botany. Botany. 362 PRACTICAL BOTAJSTY 330. Ornameatal plants. Only a very few of the best-known ornamental plants of the choripetalous dicotyledons not already referred to can here be mentioned. Among them are pinks, water lilies, lotuses, magnolias, poppies, " geraniums," "nas- turtiums " (Tropceo- lurri), balsams, vio- lets, mallows, be- gonias, and cacti. Here belong a large proportion of the annuals in our gar- dens and many of the familiar early wild flowers of the woods and fields, such as fire pink, buttercup, Dutch- man's-breeches, he- patica, anemone,
. Practical botany. Botany. 362 PRACTICAL BOTAJSTY 330. Ornameatal plants. Only a very few of the best-known ornamental plants of the choripetalous dicotyledons not already referred to can here be mentioned. Among them are pinks, water lilies, lotuses, magnolias, poppies, " geraniums," "nas- turtiums " (Tropceo- lurri), balsams, vio- lets, mallows, be- gonias, and cacti. Here belong a large proportion of the annuals in our gar- dens and many of the familiar early wild flowers of the woods and fields, such as fire pink, buttercup, Dutch- man's-breeches, he- patica, anemone, catchfly, and blood- root. Here, too, are classed the numer- ous showy species of the Mustard family. Many fa- vorite shade trees, such as the oaks, birches, elms, and. ^.d Fig. 298. An American-grown camphor tree The tree is six or eight years old and eighteen feet high; it is grown on the Florida " high pine land," of almost pure white sand. Camphor-growing is now car- ried on extensively in this region, and hy the improved method of distilling camphor from twigs clipped with their leaves from the live tree the latter is little in- jured, and the industry can be carried on for many years without replanting. Photograph furnished hy the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture maples, and many ornamental shrubs, such as barberries, hollies, hibiscus, and others, belong to the choripetalous sub-class.^ 1 Considerable matter relating to various species of hard-wood trees (most of which are choripetalous dicotyledons) will be found in the summary of facts concerning timber in Chapter XXII, and a short account of the citrous fruits and the grapes in Chapter 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 Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917; Caldwell, Otis Will
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