Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
mountain-laurel—Kadlmia latifolia—that in June breaks 
out into a broad, compact mass of blossoms, varying 
from white to rose-color, each shaped like a miniature 
bowl with a row of ten depressions around the mid- 
dle, in each of which an anther is neatly socketed. <A 
smaller and less showy sort is the narrow-leaved laurel— 
K. angustifolia—often found in open pasture-land, and 
called lambkill by farmers. This is doubtless a false 
and unkind aspersion ; very possibly foolish lambs have 
indigestion after eating it; so would a three-months-old 
baby, if fed with meat and potato; and there is proba- 
bly as much inherent poison in the one case as in the 
other. 
Another species, K. glauca, has purplish flowers, and 
a fourth, growing in Virginia, a rosy-tinted corolla. 
The only sorts desirable for cultivation are the broad- 
leaved and the narrow-leaved ; and they need only to 
be heralded on coming from Europe or Asia to secure 
wider recognition of their worth. 
Another strictly American group is the small one 
called Calycanthus, chiefly known through a favorite 
species, the sweet-scented shrub, C. floridus, that has 
become popular in Europe. Flower, foliage, and bark 
are aromatic, the blossom when warmed emitting a 
fragrance quite like that of the strawberry. Being pur- 
plish and not clustered, the flower is not a conspicu- 
ous ornament, but its aroma and the thickly foliaged, 
shapely bush have won a wide recognition at home and 
abroad. A less known species, C. occidentalis, in Cali- 
fornia, is of greater size, with ampler leaves and dark 
crimson flowers three inches in diameter. 
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