HEATH FAMILY 



SMOOTH AZALEA. TREE AZALEA 



Azalea arborfacens. 



The Tree Azalea under favorable conditions attains 

 the height of six to ten feet. Although found in the 

 mountains of Pennsylvania the plant is really southern 

 and finds its most congenial home in the Carolinas and 

 the Gulf states. The leaves are one to two inches 

 long, obovate or oval, acute or acuminate at apex, 

 margin entire and ciliate, bright green above, pale 

 green beneath, fragrant in drying. 



The flowers, which appear in June and July, are of 

 the azalea type, white or tinged with pink, fragrant. 

 The border is nearly regular, and the tube slender and 

 glandular; stamens and style are red, long-exserted. 

 The fruiting capsule is densely glandular, one-half to 

 three-fourths of an inch long. 



This is one of the most beautiful and most fragrant 

 of the azaleas, and the length of its blooming period 

 makes it desirable in cultivation. 



WHITE SWAMP HONEYSUCKLE. WHITE AZALEA. 

 CLAMMY AZALEA 



Azalea viscbsa. 



Four to six: feet high, with numerous spreading branches, 

 grayish bark and hairy twigs ; the whole plant sticky and 

 clammy ; found in swamps, at the borders of ponds, on moist 

 highlands. Ranges from Maine to Florida and from Ohio to 

 Texas, not far from the coast. Variable. 



Leaves. — Alternate, simple, obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, 

 two to four inches long, short-petioled, wedge -shaped at base, 

 entire, ciliolate at margin, obtuse or acute and bristle pointed at 



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