ERICACE^ 



MARSH LEDUM, Ledum palustre. 



Gardens. A compact shrub, succeeding best in cool, damp, peaty soil, but 

 will grow in sandy loam with a little leaf-mould. April — June. 



Ftoweis white, tinged with pink, smaller than L. latifol'mm, in a terminal 

 7/ ?«/W, pedicels pubescent ; Calij.v teeth ovate, obtuse; Stamens 10, longer than 

 corolla ; Fruit a capsule, oblong or oval, scurfy, nodding, 5-celled, 5-valved ; 

 seed ripened freely. 



Leaves alternate, linear, distant, exstipulate, petiolate, entire, revolute, 

 coriaceous, under side with rusty brown tomentum, ^-1+ in. long, J in. wide. 



An evergreen slinib, 2-3 ft. ; Ticigs rusty tomentose. 



Native of northern part of Eastern hemisphere; introduced 1762. 



FLAME-COLOURED AZALEA, Ehododendron calendulaceum. 



Gardens, shrubberies. May — June. This is perhaps the most beautiful 

 of any of the American types of Azalea. The various species of Azalea are 

 propagated by cuttings in sandy soil under bell-glass in temperature of G0°-70° 

 in March ; by grafting in same temperature in March. 



Lloivcrs yellow, red, orange, or copper-coloured, not clammy, appearing 

 before leaves, in a terminal umbel ; pedicels short, pilose or glandular; Calyx 

 inferior, gamosepalous, 5-fid ; Coi'olla gamopetalous, 5-lobed, tube shorter than 

 segments, hairy ; Stamens 5, long exserted ; Ovary superior, 5-celled ; Fi-uit 

 a capsule, linear-oblong, erect, pubescent, t in. long. 



Leaves alternate, oblong, exstipulate, petiolate, entire, pubescent both 

 surfaces, at length hairy. 



\ deciduous shrub, 4—8 ft. ; Trv/gs mostly glabrous. 



Native of Alleghany forests ; said to be handsomest shrub in N. America. 



Discovered by Bertram in Georgia in 1774 ; introduced by I. yon in 1806. 



Generic name from Gr. r/iododeudro/i, the Rose Bay or Oleander — 



rhodon, a rose, dendron, a tree, in allusion to rose-red flowers of many 



species. Specific name = Marigold-like, from I^. calendula, the marigold, — 



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