1902 



LOGANBERRY 



LOMATIA 



mels and burns easily. The wholesale price for the 

 dried product is at the present time about 28 cents a 

 pound. The berries dry down to about one-fifth, so 

 that a twenty-five-pound crate will produce five pounds 

 of dried fruit, although the percentage of the dried 

 fruit to the fresh fruit will vary considerably. The first 

 few pickings dry down more than those which come 

 later, and should there be heavy rains the berries grow 

 very large and luscious but contain relatively more 

 water. It costs roughly about a cent a pound to dry the 

 berries, although the commercial evaporators are 

 charging about 3 cents for each dried pound. After 

 drying, the berries are allowed to sweat and are handled 

 about the same way as blackcap raspberries. They are 

 then packed in boxes which hold either twenty-five or 

 fifty pounds each. 



Since the prune and the loganberry grow on similar 

 soils successfully and both can be evaporated in the 

 same drier, there are a number of growers who are com- 

 bining these two crops. Thus a greater revenue is 

 derived from the money invested in the evaporators. 

 Loganberries come into bearing the second year and 

 bear heavily the third, while the prune bears some the 

 fifth year but not heavily until the seventh. The 

 average evaporator will cost about $2,000 and such a 

 building can handle the product of 40 acres. 



As yet the loganberry is sold only in the United 

 States. No attempt has been made to send it to foreign 

 countries. This is due to the fact that the growers have 

 not been able to satisfy the buyers who come to them. 

 The future for this berry appears to be promising, the 

 indications being that it will be many years before the 

 demand can be satisfied. C. I. LEWIS. 



LOGANIA (James Logan, Governor of Pennsylvania 

 in Colonial times). Loganiacex. About 20 herbs and 

 .shrubs of Austral, and probably 1 in New Zeal., with 

 mostly small white or flesh-colored more or less imper- 

 fect fls. Lvs. opposite: corolla campanulate or the tube 

 cylindrical, the lobes 4 or 5; stamens 4 or 5, inserted in 

 the tube; ovary 2-celled, becoming an ovoid or globular 

 or oblong dehiscent caps. The loganias are seldom 

 cult. They probably require the treatment of other 

 coolhouse Australian things. L. floribtinda, R. Br., is 

 an erect shrub with lanceolate or linear Ivs. and white 

 fls., of which the females are usually smaller than the 

 males, in axillary short cymes or panicles. L.B.C. 

 12 : 1118. L. latifolia, R. Br., is an erect shrub or under- 

 shrub, often glaucous, with broadly obovate to oblong- 

 elliptic Ivs. and white fls. in dense terminal cymes. 

 Both species grow about 3 or 4 ft. high. 



LOISELEURIA (after J. C. A. Loiseleur-Deslong- 

 champs, physician and botanist in Paris, 1774-1849). 

 Syn., Chamasledon, Charmecistus. Ericaceae. A procum- 

 bent hardy evergreen shrub with very small, mostly 

 opposite, closely set, entire Ivs., and with small, 

 usually rose-colored fls. in terminal, few-fld. umbels. 

 A single species in the subarctic regions and high 

 mountains of the northern hemisphere, allied to Kalmia 

 and Leiophyllum, but calyx 5-parted, nearly as long as 

 the bell-shaped corolla, stamens 5, with the anthers 

 opening lengthwise and caps. 2-3-celled. Well adapted 

 for rockeries, forming depressed tufts, but not easy to 

 grow and rarely cult. It grows best in a sunny or partly 

 shaded position in a porous, peaty and sandy soil, 

 which is well drained and has a constant but moderate 

 supply of moisture. Prop, by seeds treated like those of 

 rhododendron or by cuttings of half -ripened wood under 

 glass. L. procumbens, Desv. (Azalea procumbens, 

 Linn. Chamsecistus procumbens, Kuntze). Only a few 

 inches high, quite glabrous: Ivs. petioled, oval to nar- 

 row-oblong, revolute at the margin, about J^in. long: 

 fls. 1-5, on rather short pedicels, pink or whitish, about 

 Kin. across. July, Aug. L.B.C. 8:762. G.C. III. 

 53:343. ALFRED REHDER. 



LOLIUM (the ancient Latin name). Graminese. 

 DARNEL. RYE-GRASS. Tufted grasses with flat blades 

 and slender spikes. 



Spikelets several-fld., sessile, placed edgewise on 

 opposite sides of a zigzag axis. Includes about 6 

 species of Old World grasses, 2 of which are intro. in 

 the eastern states and are familiar fodder grasses of 

 the same region. Perennial rye-grass was probably 

 the first pasture grass to be cult, in Great Britain, 

 and is grown there yet to a considerable extent, where it 

 is said to occupy the same relative position of impor- 

 tance that timothy does here. A weedy species, L. 

 temulentum, reputed to be poisonous to cattle, is sup- 

 posed to be the "tares" of Scripture. It is the darnel, 

 although that name is sometimes, but perhaps erro- 

 neously, applied to other species. Our 2 cult, species 

 are short-lived perennials or the second scarcely more 

 than an annual, not to be recommended for perma- 

 nent pasture or lawn, but are frequently employed for 

 hay or annual pasture. They are successful only in the 

 moist regions of the eastern states. Seed sown in 

 autumn or early spring, 25-30 Ibs. to the acre. Rye- 

 grass is often sown in lawn mixtures to give a quick 

 covering to the soil, especially in large expanses such 

 as parks and public grounds. It is replaced gradually 

 by other constituents of the mixture that are more 

 permanent. Theloliums are agricultural grasses, scarcely 

 grown for ornament or as garden plants. 



perenne, Linn. PERENNIAL RYE-GRASS. One to 3 ft. 

 high, with shining Ivs. and slender spike, 4-10 in. long: 

 spikelets 8-16-fld., awnless or only short-awned. Dept. 

 Agric., Div. Agrost. 7:301. 



multiflorum, Lam. (L. itdlicum, A. Br.). ITALIAN 

 RYE-GRASS. Regarded by many as a variety of the 

 preceding. Differs chiefly in having longer awns to 

 the florets. Ibid 302. This form of rye-grass is com- 

 mon on the Pacific Coast as a weed in open ground. 

 It is there often called Australian rye-grass. 



A. S. HITCHCOCK. 



LOMARIA (Greek, loma, a forage). Polypodiacese. 

 A generic name for a group of ferns, sometimes recog- 

 nized as distinct from Blechnum, to which they are here 

 referred. The species of ferns classed as Lomaria in 

 Cyclopedia of American Horticulture have been referred 

 to Blechnum in the present edition as follows: L. ciliata 

 =B. Moorei, C. Chr.; L. lanceolata, Spreng.=J5. lanceo- 

 latum, Sturm, L. discolor, Willd.=.B. discolor, Keys; L. 

 gibba, Labill.=.B. gibbum, Mett.; L. Boryana, Willd.= 

 B. tabulare, Kuhn; L. spicant, Desv.=.B. spicant, With- 

 ers; L. nipponica, Kunze=.B. spicant var.; L. costari- 

 cerms=Plagiogyria; L. procera, Spreng. =Blechnum 

 capense, Schlecht., in Trop. Amer., Afr., New Zeal., 

 etc.: rhizome short and stout, often woody, erect or 

 prostrate: fronds many, 1-4 ft. or even to 10 ft. and 

 more; pinnae usually very numerous, 12 in. or less 

 long, the margins minutely toothed. Variable. Var. 

 chilensis (Kaulfuss) is sometimes mentioned in horti- 

 cultural literature. G. 36:45. 



A recent monograph on this group of ferns recognizes 

 it as a distinct genus, but under the generic name 

 Struthiopteris which is considered to take precedence 

 of Lomaria. R. C. BENEDICT. 



LOMARldPSIS: Stenochlxna. 



LOMATIA (from Greek word for edge, alluding to the 

 winged seeds). Proteacese. About a dozen shrubs and 

 trees in Australia and Tasmania, and in Chile, little 

 known in cultivation, a very few of which are in the 

 trade. They are coolhouse subjects, and suitable for 

 the open in the warmer parts, grown primarily for the 

 handsome dentate, pinnate or pinnatifid foliage. They 

 require the general treatment of the Australian cool 

 greenhouse things; propagated by well-ripened cut- 

 tings. 



Leaves variable, alternate, from entire to toothed 



