TREES AND SHRUBS 



An Order of about 13,000 species, often favouring peaty soils, and having 

 mycorhiza on their roots. Distinguished from Campanulacea? by the apical 

 pores or shts of the anthers. The Ericacea3 and Campanulacea; are the only 

 gamopetalous orders in which the stamens are not inserted on the corolla. 



BILBERRY or WHORTLEBERRY, racchmm iMyrfilhs. 



Heaths, moorlands, rockeries. April — .June. A pretty little shrub, admired 

 in spring for its rosy waxen flowers and fresh green foliage, and in autumn for 

 its refreshing fruit. No pruning is necessary. The species are propagated by 

 cuttings of shoots in sandy moist peat under handliglit in shade in summer ; 

 layers in autumn ; division in September or March ; seeds in shallow boxes or 

 pans filled with moist sandy peat in temperature .5,5°-65^ in spring, transplanting 

 outdoors in summer. 



Flowers rose tinged with green, solitary and axillary, pedicels i in. ; 

 Calyx turbinate, 5-lobed ; Corolla urceolate-globoid, 2^-2J ins. long, epigy- 

 nous, 5 small teeth ; Stamens 10, epigynous, anthers awned. dehiscing by 

 pores ; Ovarij inferior, 4-5-celled, style filiform, stigma obtuse ; Fruit a 

 berry, globoid, 4-5-celled, blue-black, pruinose, size of pea, many-seeded, edible ; 

 used as preserve. 



Leaves alternate, ovate or eUiptical, acute, serrulate, thin, pale green, 

 glabrous, |-1 in. long, petiole short. Autumn tints cherry-red, scarlet, crimson, 

 brown. 



A sub-evergreen shrub, 6-18 ins.; Stem erect, rigid, angular; Branches 

 ascending, angular, glabrous; Buds scaly; Rootstock creeping. 



Native of Britain. Also called Blueberry. 



BOG WHORTLEBERRY, Vaccinum uliginosum. 



Mountain heaths and bogs. A useful trailing shrub for the rock-garden. 

 May, June. 



Floxvers pale pink, solitary, on axillary peduncles. 1-3 together; Cahj.v tube 



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