Shrubs and Vines 



and Western States, with bright red flowers in short 

 clusters, is of more arboreal figure, and would be called 

 a dwarf tree, rather than a shrub. 



An excellent genus of rather large shrubs, whose 

 flowers are of the beautiful camellia type, is Stuartia. 

 It is a small group, and we hardly need to go abroad for 

 its representation, as two of the finest species are native 

 to Virginia, and hardy up to Southern New England, if 

 planted in not too exposed a situation. In S. pentagyna 

 the cream-white blossoms, nearly four inches across, de- 

 velop in July and August. The five or more petals are 

 finely scalloped on the edge, and the stamens are very 

 numerous. The foliage is good, and as the shrub attains 

 a height often to twelve feet, its appearance in full bloom 

 is striking. A smaller sort is S. virginica, with purple 

 filaments in the stamens, blossoming in June and July, 

 and with a different foliage. The Japanese species, S. 

 pseudo camellia, not much known in this country, has 

 much the same features, and scarcely rivals our native 

 forms. 



Sea-shore exposure requires special selection for the 

 lawn, and a native species, popularly called groundsel- 

 tree — though only a shrub ten to twelve feet high — ** to 

 the manor born," is desirable for such localities, and 

 will doubtless thrive inland equally well. The foliage is 

 dark green, and the flowers, in small, compact clusters, 

 are white in some plants, yellow in others ; for the pis- 

 tillate and staminate blossoms grow on separate plants. 



The wild rosemary of Europe, also native to this 

 country, bears the botanical name of Aiidro7neda poli- 

 folia, appHed, in a spirit of poetry that is painfully lack- 



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