. 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. 854 KALMIA decorative, contrasting well with tbe red and yellowish branches. The species is also easily forced and makes a very handsome pot-plant. The other species are pretty border plants for evergreen shrubberies. The Kalmias thrive well in a sandy, peaty or loamy soil, but dislike clay and limestone. They
. 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. 854 KALMIA decorative, contrasting well with tbe red and yellowish branches. The species is also easily forced and makes a very handsome pot-plant. The other species are pretty border plants for evergreen shrubberies. The Kalmias thrive well in a sandy, peaty or loamy soil, but dislike clay and limestone. They grow almost as well in swamps as in drier locations and prefer partly shaded situations, but thrive also well in sunny places, provided there be sufficient moisture. They require gen- erally almost the same treatment as the hardy Rhodo- dendron, but are less particular about soil and position. Transplanting, if carefully done either early in fall or in spring, is not difficult; a mulching the first season after planting will be of much advantage to keep the roots from drying in summer and from frost in winter. Prop, usually by seeds sown in sandy, peaty soil in pans or boxes in early spring and kept in a cool frame or green- house. The seedlings should be pricked off as soon as they can be handled, and after they are again established gradually hardened off and the following year trans- planted in frames or beds outdoors. Vars. of K. lati- folia are usually increased by side-grafting on seedlings in the greenhouse or by layers, since it grows less readily from cuttings, while the other species may be prop, by cuttings of half-ripened wood under glass. Six species in N. Amer. and Cuba, allied to Rhododen- dron : fls. in terminal or lateral corymbs or umbels, rarely solitary; calyx 5-parted; corolla saucer-shaped or broadly companulate, 5-lobed; stamens 10, with slen- der filaments, the anthers held back in little pouches of the corolla, springing up suddenly and discharging the
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