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THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Avenues—continued. 
Deodars, Araucarias, Douglas Pine, the Mexican, Chinese, 
and Japanese Cypresses, and many others, are eminently 
suited for Avenue planting. Shrubs and herbaceous plants 
should be introduced between the trees, and so remove any 
bareness that may occur. Diervilla rosea, and its varie- 
gated form, Aucubas, Rhododendrons, Hypericwms, and 
many others, could be mentioned to serve this purpose. 
A moderately good soil will be found to answer generally. 
AVERREBHOA (in honour of Averrhoes, of Cordova, 
a celebrated Arabian physician, who resided in Spain 
during the domination of the Moors, about the middle of 
Averrhoa— continued. 
sometimes from the larger ones, and even the trunk. fr. the size 
of a hen’s egg, acutely five-cornered, witha thin, yellow rind, and 
a clear watery pulp. Z. alternate, with about four to five pairs of 
ovate, acuminated, entire, stalked leaflets, the outer ones largest. 
h. 14ft. to 20ft. 1793. This, as well as the first-named species, is 
cultivated throughout the hotter parts of India, but where it 
occurs truly wild is not known. 
AVOCADO PEAR. Sce Persea gratissima, 
AWL-SHAPED. Narrow-pointed, resembling an awl. 
AWLWORT. See Subularia. 
AXIL. Literally the armpit; in plants applied to the 
angle formed by union of the leaf and stem. 
Fic. 196, AZALEA BALSAMINZ:FLORA. 
the twelfth century ; he translated Aristotle into Arabic). 
ORD. Geraniacew. Ornamental stove trees, thriving in 
loam and peat. Half-ripened cuttings will strike in sand, 
under a hand glass, about April, with bottom heat. The 
leaves of the first-named species are irritable to the touch. 
A. Bilimbi (Bilimbi-tree). jf. reddish purple, disposed in racemes, 
rising from the trunk. May, fr. oblong, somewhat resembling a 
mak cucumber, with a thin, smooth, green rind, filled with a 
grateful acid juice, and the substance and seeds not unlike that 
_ of a cucumber. id, alternate, with from five to ten pairs of ovate- 
lanceolate, entire, smooth leaflets ‘n short stalks. A. 8ft. to 15ft. 
Native country unknown, 1791. (B.'F. S. 117.) : 
Carambola, Carambola-tree. f. red, scattered, be sn in 
ches, but 
A. 
short racemes, usually rising from the smaller bran 
AXILLARY. Growing in the axil of anything. 
AZALEA (from azaleos, dry, arid; in allusion to the 
habitation of the plant). ORD. Ericacew. A genus of 
very popular hardy or greenhouse plants. The species 
enumerated were included under Rhododendron by Don, 
Loudon, and others, contrary to the classification of Lin- 
neus, but the distinctive characters are not consistent. 
In this genus, the stamens are usually five, but in Rhodo- 
dendron ten is the typical number. One of the showiest 
genera for the amateur, as well as one that is indispensable - 
to the professional gardener. 
~ Ghent or American Azaleas These are extremely 
