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Fig. 33- — Disanthus cercidilolia. — See page 213. 



J. A flowering and fruitinp; branch, natural size. 2. Side view of a flower-cluster, with peduncle and scaly-bud, showing the apparent connective composed of the closely 

 imbricated bracts, enlarged. 3. Front view of a flower, enlarged. 4. A sepal, enlarged. 5. A petal, enlarged. 6. Front and rear views of a stamen, enlarged. 

 7. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 8. A seed, enlarged. 9. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 



export traffic in fruit, vegetables and flowers, and before 

 private and public statistics bore w^itness to the immense 

 tonnage and great money value of horticultural produce of 

 all kinds. 

 Up to the middle of the present century, and even later. 



all horticultural tuition was of the mutual kind. Experi- 

 enced gardeners, whether in charge of the places of gentle- 

 men and noblemen, or working independently for profit, 

 used to take in their employ boys or young men as appren- 

 tices and teach them the rules of cultivation, pruning and 



