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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



varieties is a cluster of large-seeded leathery hairy pods. The double f<n-ms 

 of this, as well as all other fully double flowers, do not produce fruit. This 

 shrubby peouy is not so popular in America as many herbaceous forms, 



Fig. 3. —Shrub Yellow-root. 



though in China, its native country, 



there are hundreds of named varieties. 



[Divisions; seeds (slow-sprouting).] 



Fig. 4. — Star Magnolia. 

 Zanthorhiza. Shrib Yellow- 

 root (3) — Zanthorhiza apiifolia — is a low shrubby plant (1-2 feet) 

 sometimes cultivated for the handsome compound leaves with three to many 



cut and lobed blades, which are 

 clustered at the top of the short, 

 erect, woody stem. The flowers 

 and fruit are small and sessile 

 on long drooping stems. The 

 flowers are brownish in April to 

 May ; the fruit is somewhat in- 

 flated 1- to 2-seeded yellow pods. 

 [Seeds ; root cuttings. ] 



Magn61ia. The Magnolias 

 form a genus of about 20 species of 

 hardy trees unsurpassed in the size 

 and beauty of leaf and flower. While 

 most of the species are tree-like in 

 form and size, still along the north- 



FiG. 5. — Swamp Magnolia. 



