. 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. Gardening. 1336 riERIS PILEA moist, well-dramed and porous soil, but dislike lime- stone and heavy clay; a partly shaded situation suits them best. Prop, by seeds treated like those of Azalea or Rhododendron; also by layers, and the evergreen ones by cuttings of almost ripened wood in August under glass, kept during the w
. 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. Gardening. 1336 riERIS PILEA moist, well-dramed and porous soil, but dislike lime- stone and heavy clay; a partly shaded situation suits them best. Prop, by seeds treated like those of Azalea or Rhododendron; also by layers, and the evergreen ones by cuttings of almost ripened wood in August under glass, kept during the winter in a cool green- house. They root very slowly; cuttings taken from forced plants root more readily. About 10 species in N. Amer. and in Asia from Himal. to Japan. Calyx- lobes valvate or distinct; corolla globose or nrceolate; stamens 10 ; anthers obtuse, with a pair of awns near the base or the filaments 2-toothed below the apex: cap- sule with 5 dehiscent valves ; seeds linear-oblong, not winged, with membranaceous testa. Often included under Andromeda. Closely allied to Lyonia, but dis- tinguished by its awnless anthers, and to Zenobia, which has the anthers 4-awned at the apex. The foliage of some species is said to be poisonous to cattle. A. Lvs. evergreen. B. Flowers in terminal panicles formed the previous year and remaining naked during the winter: capsule globose, without ridges. floribiinda, Benth. & Hook. (Andrimeda floribtlnda, Pursh. Portiina floribiinda, l<!\itt.). Fig. 1800. Dense shrub, 2-0 ft. high: and petioles with strigose brown hairs : Ivs. ovate to oblong - lanceolate, acute, minutely serrulate and setosely ciliate, otherwise gla- brous, l^A-'iV^ in. long: fls. nodding, in terminal dense upright panicles lM-4 in. long; corolla ovate, strongly 5 angled, white, M in. long. April, May. Va. to Ga., in the Alleghany Mts. 1560. 10:807. 1898 —Verj' desirable evergreen shrub for its hardi- ness and earliness of the f
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