HIBISCUS 



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pub^scens, can be grown in Massachusetts) reduced to shrubs and bloom- 

 ing when small. 



Loblolly or Tax 'Bay' (52) — (Jordonia Lasianthus — has a pointed 

 pod and is fully evergreen with 

 glossy notch-edged leaves 4 to 6 

 inches long and pure white flowers 

 21 inches broad in July and August. 



Fkanklinia (53) — Gordoniapu- 

 bescens — has a globular pod and 

 deciduous leaves which turn a bril- 

 liant scarlet before dropping in the 

 autumn. The pure white flowers 

 are 3 inches broad, silky outside, 

 blooming in September and October. 



'i'here is another plant, always 

 a shrub, probably belonging to this 

 genus, from China, Chinese Gor- 

 DONiA (54) — Gordonia andmala. 

 This has almost sessile creamy- 

 white flowers 2 to 3 inches broad, 

 in November, and nearly entire- 

 edged dark evergreen oblanceolate 

 leaves 3 to G inches long. 



[Seeds j layers ; twig cuttings.] Fig. 5i. -Chinese Gordouia. 



Fig. 5."). — Japanese Cleyera. 



Cleyera ochnacea. Japanese 



Cleykra (-w) is a tender shrub (0 

 feet high) with alternate, glossy, 

 evergreen, entire-edged (except at 

 tip) leaves pointed at both ends ; the 

 flowers are fragrant, numerous, 

 creamy-white in June ; the fruit are 

 red berries which last all winter. 

 Hardy in the Gulf states. There is 

 a variety, tricolor, witli grayish 

 blotchings and white and rose-colored 

 edgings to the foliage ; the flower 

 has 5 sepals, 2 bracts, and o petals; 

 the berries are 2 to 3-celled. 



[Seeds.] 



Hibiscus. The Rose Mallows form a large group of mainly herba- 

 ceous i»lants with large hollyhock-like flowers. The only woody species 



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