Shrubs and Vines 
and Western States, with bright red flowers in short 
clusters, is of more arboreal figure, and would be called 
a dwarf tree, rather than a shrub. 
An excellent genus of rather large shrubs, whose 
flowers are of the beautiful camellia type, is Stwartia. 
It is a small group, and we hardly need to go abroad for 
its representation, as two of the finest species are native 
to Virginia, and hardy up to Southern New England, if 
planted in not too exposed a situation. In S. pentagyna 
the cream-white blossoms, nearly four inches across, de- 
velop in July and August. The five or more petals are 
finely scalloped on the edge, and the stamens are very 
numerous. ‘The foliage is good, and as the shrub attains 
a height of ten to twelve feet, its appearance in full bloom 
is striking. A smaller sort is S. virginica, with purple 
filaments in the stamens, blossoming in June and July, 
and with a different foliage. The Japanese species, \S. 
pseudo camellia, not much known in this country, has 
much the same features, and scarcely rivals our native 
forms. 
Sea-shore exposure requires special selection for the 
lawn, and a native species, popularly called groundsel- 
tree—though only a shrub ten to twelve feet high—‘‘ to 
the manor born,’’ is desirable for such localities, and 
will doubtless thrive inland equally well. The foliage is 
dark green, and the flowers, in small, compact clusters, 
are white in some plants, yellow in others; for the pis- 
tillate and staminate blossoms grow on separate plants. 
-The wild rosemary of Europe, also native to this 
country, bears the botanical name of Andromeda polt- 
Jolia, applied, in a spirit of poetry that is painfully lack- 
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