CAPRIFOLIACEi^ 



An evergreen shrub, 6-10 ft.; Branches green, terete, smooth ; Buds large; 

 young wood tender, easily destroyed when exposed to strong winds. 



A native of Japan. Female introduced in 1783, male in 18.50 (by Fortune). 



Gan-i/a elliptica. 



Shrubberies, walls. October — March. The male plant is more usually grown, 

 and is by far the more handsome. In most districts it is best against a south or 

 west wall. Prune after flowering. Propagated by cuttings of half-ripe wood in 

 sandy soil under hand-light or cold frame, August or September; layering 

 of shoots, September or October ; seeds in well-drained pans of sandy soil in cold 

 frame, September — October. 



Flowers greenish-white or yellowish, dioecious ; Males in slender pendulous 

 catkins, 6-10 ins. long, persistent through summer, bracts densely hairy ; 

 Females in dense catkins, 3-4 ins. long ; Bracts connate ; Fruit a drupe, black, 

 pulp purple, 2 bony seeds. 



Leaves opposite, oblong or elliptical, acute, entire, wavy when young, 

 thick, coriaceous, shortly petiolate, dark shining green above, hoary beneath, 3 

 ins. long. 



An evergreen sk7'ub, 8-10 ft. ; head dense, spreading ; shoots slender, downy 

 when young, glabrous when mature. 



Native of N.W. America; males discovered by Douglas, 1828; females 

 by Hartweg, 1848 ; first fruited in 18.50. Genus named in honour of Michael 

 Garry, Secretary to the Hudson's Bay Company. 



Class T Dicotyledons 



Division III. . . . Gamopetalce 

 Natuuai, OuuEit . . . Caprifoliacece 



Trees, shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite, usually exstipulate leaves, 



and regular or irregular cymose flowers, terminal or rarely axillary ; Calyx 



superior, 2-5-lobed or toothed ; Corolla gamopetalous, epigynous, 4-5-lobed, 



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