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Avenues — rnnliniied. 

 Deodars, Araucarias, Douglas Pine, the Mexican, Chincpo, 

 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. Dian'illa rosea^ and its varie- 

 gated form, Aucubas, Rhododendrons^ Hypericums^ and 

 many others, could bo mentioned to serve this purpose. 

 A moderately good soil will be found to answer generally. 



AVEKBiHOA (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. 



scrimliiiiL's frniii the larger ones, and even the trunk, /r. the size 

 of a hell's e^'g, acutely tive-cornei-ed, with a tllin, yelUiw riiiil, and 

 a clear watery pulp. /. alternate, with ahuut feur to five paiis of 

 ovate, acuminated, entire, stalked Icatiets, the outer ones largest. 

 h. 14ft. to 20ft. 1793. 'j'his, as well as the fiist-naiued species, is 

 cultivated throiiiiheut the hotter parts of Iiiilia, but wlicre it 

 occurs truly wild is not known. 



AVOCADO FEAR. See Persea §rratissima. 



AWL-SHAFED. Narrow-pointed, resembling an awl. 

 AWLWORT. See Subnlaria. 



AXIIi. Literally the armpit ; in plants applied to the 

 angle formed by union of the leaf and stem. 



Fig. 196. Azalea balsamin-eflora. 



the twelfth century ; he translated Aristotle into Arabic). 

 Ord. Gera7Liacece. 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 Bilimbl (Bilimbi-tree). /. reddish purple, disposed in racemes, 

 i-isin;; from the trunk. May. Jr. oblong, somewhat resembling a 

 small cucumber, with a thin, smooth, green rind, filled with a 

 grateful acid juice, and the substance and seeds not unlike that 

 of a cucumber. I. alternate, witli from five to ten pairs of ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire, smooth leaflets on short stalks, h. 8ft. to 15ft. 

 Native country unknown, 1791. (B. F. S. 117.) 



A. Carambola. Carambola-tree. Jf. red, scattered, disposed in 

 short racemes, usually rising from the smaller branches, but 



AXILLARIA. See Folygonatum. 



AXILliARy. (irowing in the axil of anything. 

 AYRSHIRE ROSE. See Rosa repens capreolata. 



AZAIiEA (from azaJeos, dry, arid ; in allusion to the 

 habitat of tlie plant). Okd. Xricacece. A genus of very 

 popular and beautiful hardy or greenhouse plants. The 

 species enumerated were included under Rhododendron by 

 Don, Loudon, and others, contrary to the classification of 

 Linnaeus, but the distinctive characters are not consistent. 

 In this genus, the stamens are usually five, but in Rhodo- 

 dendron ten is the typical number. 



Ghent or American Azaleas. These are extremely 



