TREES AND SHRUBS 



COMMON BEARBERRY, Arctostaphi/Ios- Uva-nrsi. 



Dry, heathy, locky hills, or mountains ; rockeries. Best in sandy peat. 

 April — June. 



Floxvers pink, or flesh-coloured with red mouth, in a very short, few- 

 flowered, crowded, terminal raceme; Sepals short and broad; Corolla urceolate, 

 I in. diam., teeth 4-5, hairy within; Staineiis 10, anthers with long awns; 

 Ovary superior ; Fruit a drupe, globular, smooth, shining, insipid, pulpy, mealy, 

 red, \ in. diam. ; ripe in September. 



Leaves alternate. Box-like, obovate, spathulate, or oblong, entire, ciliate, 

 obtuse, coriaceous, glossy deep green, reticulately nerved both surfaces, J-1 in. 

 long, petiole and margin finely woolly. Autumn tints bright red to purplish- 

 brown. 



An evergreen shrub, 4-0 ins. ; procumbent ; Branches scandent. 



Native of N. England, Scotland, and Ireland ; leaves and branches used for 

 dye. Syn. Arbutus Uva-ursi. Specific name from L. uva, a bunch or 

 cluster of grapes, and ursa, a bear. Known as Red Bearberry. 



SHOWY ZENOBIA, Zeiwbia spedosa. 



Gardens. June, July. Thrives in peaty soil, and warm but open situation, 

 liking plentj^ of moisture at the roots. Propagate by layers September or 

 October. 



Floiccrs white, waxy in texture, resembling Lily of the ^'^alley, in an umbellate 

 axi/larij cluster; pedicels drooping; Cali/.v gamosepalous, 5-lobed, lobes short, 

 triangular; Corolla gamopetalous, campanulate, 5-lobed, I in. diam.; Stamen) 

 10, anthers with awns; Ovarij 5-celled ; Fruit a capsule, depressed-globose, 

 obtusely 5-lobed, 5-celled. 



Leaves alternate, oval or oblong, crenulated or slightly serrulated, coriaceous, 

 silvery, glabrous, 1-2 ins. long. 



A sub-evergreen shrub, 3-4 ft. ; glabrous, often glaucous. 



Introduced from Southern U.S.A., 1800. Syn. A/idromeda spcciosa Also 



called Silvery Andromeda. 



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