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leaves from three to six inches long and axillary flowers, 

 which are remarkable in having a narrow pinkish tomen- 

 tose tube five inches long, surmounted by a limb of five 

 spreading petals, each an inch long, a third of an inch wide 

 and pure white; the club-shaped green stigma stands erect 

 above the mouth of the tube and is surrounded by five 

 black anthers. L. nivalis is as worthy of a place among 

 stove-flowering shrubs as are Tabernaemontanas, Gar- 

 denias and Randias. 

 London. W, Watson. 



streams from southern Pennsylvania to Florida, Texas and 

 Arkansas, and the other in central and northern China. 

 The American Fringe-tree is one of the most beautiful of 

 the small American trees, and no other inhabitant of our 

 forests is more frequently cultivated or more esteemed in 

 American and European gardens, where it has been a 

 favorite for more than a century. 



As an ornamental plant the American Fringe-tree has 

 much to recommend it ; it is possessed of a vigorous con- 

 stitution, which enables it to flourish in regions of much 



Fig. 52. — The American Fringe-tree. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



The Fringe Trees. 



CHIONANTHUS, so named in allusion to its light and 

 graceful flowers, is a genus of small trees or shrubs 

 of a family to which the Ash-tree belongs, from which it 

 chiefly differs in the character of the fruit, which is a fleshy 

 cherry-like drupe. There are only two species — one in the 

 southern United States where it grows near the banks of 



more severe climates than that ot its native home ; its 

 leaves are large, abundant and excellent in color : it is not 

 disfigured by insects or fungal diseases, and in May 

 and June it is covered with long drooping panicles of 

 delicate flowers with elongated, narrow, nearly thread- 

 like, pure white petals. It is always a charming object 

 when in flower; and the surprising abundance of the 

 flower-clusters is shown in our illustration on this page, 

 which, however, fails to give an idea of the grace 



