TREES AND SHRUBS 



Introduced from Syria, 1596; the Althaea frutex of old botanists; many 

 varieties sold by nurserymen under name of Shrubby Hollyhocks. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division I Thalamiflorce 



Natural Order . . Sterculiacece 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs, sometimes climbing, with usually alternate leaves 

 and deciduous stipules at base of petioles, rarely Avanting; Flowers regular 

 or irregular, hermaphrodite or sometimes unisexual by abortion ; Calyx 

 gamosepalous, usually persistent, usually 5-eleft, lobes valvate ; Petals 5, 

 hypogynous, free or adnate at base to staminal tube, or wanting ; Stamens 

 very variable, sometimes accompanied by staminodes, anthers 2-celled ; Ovary 

 superior ; Fruit dry or rarely baccate. 



SLIPPERY ELM, Fremontia californica. 



Shrubberies, walls. April, May. This beautiful hardy deciduous shrub 

 thrives in a sandy soil, and does best on a west or north wall, but will 

 succeed in shrubberies in the south of England. It is propagated by cuttings 

 of young shoots in sandy soil in a cold frame or under a bell-glass in March 

 or April ; seeds may be sown in pots of sandy soil in a cold frame in spring 

 or autumn. 



Flowers bright yellow, 2 ins. diam., solitary at extremities of short spur- 

 like branches ; Calyx campanulate, 5 sepals ; Petals ; Stamens 5, opposite 

 sepals, hypogynous ; Ovary superior, 5-celled. 



Leaves alternate, orbicular, 3-7-lobed, few serratures, bright shining green 

 above, tomentose beneath, 3 ins. diam. ; petiole 3 ins. long. 



A deciduous shrub, 12 ft. ; young shoots brown tomentose. 



Native of California; named after Colonel Freemont (1813-1890) the dis- 

 coverer ; introduced 1851 ; first flowered 1854. ; seeds afterwards sent to England 



by William Lobb. 



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