. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . tinctive. The wood of some species of Ochnacea^ has beenused locally for timber, and, because of the prono
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . tinctive. The wood of some species of Ochnacea^ has beenused locally for timber, and, because of the pronoimcedastringent properties of some species, they have beenused locall\ for fly-bites, ulcers, and so on. Ochna mulliflorn, of Upper Guiana, is cultivated inAmerica. This is grown occasionally in greenhousesbecause of the peculiar fruit, for an account of which seethe article on Ochna. 142. Temstroemiacese (or Theaceae) (from the genusTirnslraniiu, in honor of Ternstroem, a Swedish natural-ist and traveler who died in 1745). Tea P^amily. Fig. or small trees, with alternate, entire, leatheryleaves: flowers solitary orscattered, usually bisexual, reg-ular; sepals 5-7, imbricated, persistent; petals 5, rarely 4or more, nearly or quite separate; stamens very many,rarely 15 or fewer, usually hypogynous, separate orunited at the base, or in 5 fascicles, usually adnate tothe corolla below; ovary superior, 2-10-cellcd; ovules 1to manj in each cavity; styles as many as the cells of. 39. HrpERiCAC£.E: 1. Hypericum, speciea, a, flower; b, flower,petals removed; c. fruit. 2. Xiamia, floral diaKram. : 3. Garcioia, a, flower; fc, flower, perianth removed. : 4, Tamariz, a, flower; b, flower, perianth removed; c, floral diagram. the ovary, or united into one: fruit a capsule or inde-hiscent, dry or drupaceous; embryo more or less thifi family are 16 genera and 174 species of tropicaland subtropical distribution. Stuartia reaches Vir-ginia and Kentucky,
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