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DESCRIPTIONS OF THP] SHRUBS 



I. Tree to 50 feet ; blooming June, July. Flowering when small 



and shrub-like ; leaves sour. Soruwoon (427) or Sorrel- 



TRKK — ( )xyd^ndrum arboreum. 



H, Flowers larger, ^ inch long, in side-umbels, white or faintly 



pink, May-July. A beautiful shrub, 1-4 feet. Stagger-bush 



(428) — Lyonia mariana (I'ieris niari^na). 



Erica. The Heaths and Heather are all small-leaved, shrubby plants 

 with usually small 4-lobed, bell- or urn-shaped flowers. The leaves are 

 scale- or linear-shaped and arranged on the stems in alternate, opposite, or 

 whorled positions. The fruit is a 4-celled capsule. But few are in culti- 

 vation in the open in America because of our hot and dry summers. 

 Only three have escaped and grow without cultivation. These are Euro- 

 pean species, although those cultivated in Europe are mainly from South 

 Africa. The African species ar.e practically unknown in America except- 

 ing in conservatories. 



The smaller leaves, the 4-lobed flowers, and the 4-celled fruit ^^^ll sepa- 

 rate the heaths from the andromedas. [Seeds; twig cuttings.] 



Fig. 429. — Pink 

 Moor Heath. 



Fig. 4.U). — Scotch 

 Heath, 



Fig. 432.— Irish 

 Heath. 



