LAGERSTRCEMIA 



1 white forms. It can be prop, readily by cuttings of 

 ripe wood. In the N., the plants may be lifted in 

 fall and kept in a cellar. In spring they may be 



ntedout, or flowered. under glass. The Crape Myrtle 



LAGUNARIA. (named for its resemblance to Lagunfea, 

 which is now considered a section of Hibiscus and cora- 

 nn'uiorates a Siianish botanist, Andres de Laguna, 1494 

 or 1 t:i:i-l.'.i-.(i. i.hvsi.-ian to Pope Julius III.). 3Iah'Acew. 

 Oil.- >|.. .i, -, an .\iistralian tree cult, outdoors in S. Calif. 

 aii.t in<I....rs in Inirnpe. It has large, pale rose fls. like 

 Hil.is.iis, ■_"._, ill. a.-ross.with 5 .spreading lobes, acolumn 

 of stamens and a 5-lobed shield-shaped stigma. It dif- 

 fers from Hibiscus in having no bractlets or only 3, 

 while Hibiscus usually has 5 or more. Lvs. entire, 

 scurfy-tomentose : fls. axillary; calyx 5-toothed: ovary 

 5-celled. 



PAteraonii, G. Don. About 12 ft. high, spotted brown 

 on trunk and branches: lvs. ovate, entire, 2-3 in. long, 

 dark green above, ashy gray beneath: peduncle IK in. 

 long: corolla lobes ovate, covered with minute hairy 

 scales inside, villous outside. B.M. 769 as {Lagunwa 

 Pahrsonia.) 



LAGtJRTJS (Greek, Jagos, a hare; oura, a tail). Gra- 

 minew. Hare's-tail Grass. Contains a single species, 

 native of the Mediterranean region, and cultivated for 

 ornament, the small white heads being u-sed for dry bou- 

 quets. Spikelets 1-fld., aggregated in a close panicle, 

 forming an ovoid head; scarious empty glumes persis- 

 tent and clothed with fine woolly hairs. Flowering glume 

 with a dorsal awn. A hardy annual. Seeds sown in fall 

 and plants set out in spring. 



ovi.tus, Linn. Culms about 1 ft. high, in bunches: lvs. 

 and sheaths downy. R.H. 1890, p.488. V. 3: 217 and 247. 

 A. S. Hitchcock. 



LAMAECKIA (J. B. Lamarck, 1744-1829, distinguished 

 French naturalist, and author of the Lamarckian phi- 

 losophy of organic evolution). Graminew. Contains a 

 single species, native from IMediterranean region to 

 Afghanistan, and introduced in California. An orna- 

 mental annual grass, often cultivated under the nanire of 

 Chrysurus cynosuroides and G. anreiis. Spikelets of 

 two sorts, fertile 1-fld., long-awned, surrounded by the 

 long sterile spikelets of many obtuse glumes, arranged 

 in a one-sided crowded panicle Seeds may be sown in 

 the spring, or better in the fall and plants set out in the 

 spring. 



aiirea, Moench. Culms 6-12 in. high. R.H. 1890, p. 546. 

 A. S. Hitchcock. 



LAUBEILL. Kalmia angtistifoUa. 



LAMB'S LETTUCE. Consult Corn 5a7a<J. L. auarter. 

 Chenopndium, particularlyC.aJftum. Used as apot-herb. 



the.-.., 



run « 1 



by'a'^ 

 longer 



ascen.l 

 nal wl 



landreth 875 



n.l ..th.-rs are cult, as 

 111.. Ill- distinguished 

 1 li. U 111. tuliu is somewhat 

 In- upper lip ascending and con- 

 I.- aiobed: stamens 4, in 2 pairs, 

 .per lip: fls. in axillary or terrai- 

 . r showy : lvs. opposite, mostly 

 M..ljii . calvx awl-toothed. Not 



pubescent or hairy herbs, 

 ISC and often almost trail- 

 .ulture in any open soil. 

 ult. kinds are perennial. 



scending in the 

 1 or hooded, the 

 airy within. Eu. 

 tunes varying to 

 .lit the i. album 

 nig pointed and 

 ■whitish blotched 



crenate-dentati 

 to be confoun.i. . 



Laraiums an- . 

 commonly deiniii 

 iug. They are .. 

 Useful for rock 

 and are commonly propagated by division, 



maculMum, Linn. ( /... dlhinn and L. pnrpitreum , Hort., 

 not Linn. L. n,i ,, ,initnr "■-* > at„„ 

 trailing herb, tin lips i 

 long-petioled (i \.-( pt tli 

 blunt, round-t....tli.,l II- 

 elusters, the ui.j.i-r lij. s 

 tube 2-3 times Linger tli.i 

 — Flowers usually purpl. 

 white (when it is known ; 

 of botanists is a differi 

 sharp-toothed lvs.). The 1 

 along the midrib (var. varin/i'lhiiii), and in this form 

 it is common about old gardens, trailing in the waste 

 places. The plant is also run wild. L. imrpureiim of 

 the botanists is annual. 



erioc^phalum, Benth. Stem much branched, glabrous : 

 lower lvs. long-stalked, puberulent, small, orbicular, 

 somewhat incise-crenate : floral lvs. larger, deeply 

 toothed, sessile or nearly so: calyx villous; corolla 3-4 

 times longer than the calyx, .straight, purple. Taurus.— 

 Said by some to be annual. 



Gale6bdolon, Crantz, of Europe, with yellow fls. and 

 sometimes with yellowish foliage, is cult, in the Old 

 World, but it has not appeared in the Amer. trade. 



LAMPE0C6CCUS. See ^chmea. 



LANDEETH, DAVID, founder of the oldest seed- 

 house in America, was born in 17.32 at Haggerston, North- 

 umberland county, England. He came to America late 

 in the eighteenth century, making Philadelphia his home, 

 and establishing there, in 1784, a nursery and seed busi- 

 ness. Its location, on what was then known as High 

 street, is now covered by the building 1210 and 1212 

 Market street. The raising of trees and production of 



ing too contracted for the purpose, the nursery and seed 

 grounds were removed in 1789 to the "Neck," then con- 

 sidered far out of town, the place chosen being not far 

 distant from the site of the present arsenal. 



The sub,iect of the present sketch, the younger David 

 Landreth '(Plate X), was born in Philadelphia in 1802. 

 When of suitable age he entered actively into his father's 

 business, which had considerably extended in Philadel- 

 phia, while a branch house had been opened in Charles- 

 ton, S. C. The young man's early duty was that of 

 manager of this Charleston branch. Of the Charleston 

 business, it will suffice here to say that it continued till 

 the era of the civil war, when it came to a sudden end 

 by the act of the Confederate States District Court, which 

 confiscated the real estate and merchandise alike, on 

 April 22, 1862. 



The younger David Landreth, in 1828, succeeded his 

 father as proprietor of the well-established and thriv- 

 ing business in Philadelphia, a business which was to 

 remain highly prosperous for half a century afterwards 

 under his fostering care. His time, however, was not 

 wholly occupied with the details of business, but was 

 turned at an early age towards the literature of hus- 

 bandry and to enterprises of public interest. Among 

 the latter may be mentioned the Philadelphia Horticul- 

 tural Society, of which, in 1827, he was one of the 

 founders and a vice-president, and in 1828 was elected 

 corresponding secretary, which ofiice he held for seven 



