EUCEYPHIA 



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Tribe III. Quillaje^.^ — ^Trees or shrubs with simple, rarely pinnate leathery leaves. 

 Calyx lobes often persistent. Stamens 5-10-20. Carpels free or united. Fruit folli- 

 cular, or a coccus or capsule. 



LINDLEYA. — A genus with one 

 species, the description of which below 

 includes the generic characters. 



L. mespiloides. — A beautiful Mexican 

 Medlar-hke tree, 20-30 ft. high, with 

 simple crenulate leathery leaves, and 

 small awl-like stipules. Flowers in July, 

 hermaphrodite, white, sweet-scented, 

 axillary or at the tips of the shoots. 

 Calyx persistent, S-lobed ; petals 5, 

 roundish, sessile, large. Stamens 15-20, 

 inserted at the mouth of the calyx. 

 Carpels 5. Capsule woody, oblong, 5- 

 angled or furrowed. 



Culture and Propagation. — ^In the 

 southern and milder parts of the country 

 this evergreen tree will doubtless prove 

 hardy. It likes weU-drained loamy soil 

 with a chalky bottom. It may be in- 

 creased by cuttings under glass, or by 

 grafting on the Common Hawthorn. It 

 is a plant very rarely seen. 



EUCRYPHIA. — A genus with 3 

 species of smooth or woolly resinous trees, 

 with opposite, leathery, evergreen, simple 

 or pinnate, entire, toothed or orenate 

 leaves. Sepals 4, oblong, concave, coher- 

 ing at the tips. Petals 4, large, somewhat 

 hypogy^ous, broadly obovate rounded, 

 straight or oblique. Stamens very 

 numerous. Capsule leathery or woody, 

 5-12-furrowed. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 



species described below like a warm 

 loamy or peaty soil and somewhat 

 sheltered positions, especially in northern 

 parts, in beds by themselves on grass or 

 in borders. They may be increased by 

 ripened cuttings inserted in sand under 

 glass and protected during the winter 

 months. 



E. Billardieri Milligani is a beautiful 

 white-flowered evergreen shrub, recently 

 introduced to cultivation from Tasmania. 

 It is somewhat tender, and wUl scarcely 

 succeed in the open air far beyond the 

 Midlands. 



Culture dc. as above. 



E. cordifolia. — A Chilian tree, 20 ft. 

 high, with heart-shaped oblong, crenated, 

 downy leaves. Flowers large, white, 

 axillary, solitary, stalked. 



Culture do. as above. 



E. pinnatifolia. — A distinct and 

 beautiful shrub 2-3 ft. high, also native of 

 ChUi, with pinnate leaves composed of 

 ovate serrate or toothed leaflets. Flowers 

 white, large, about 3 in. across, usually in 

 pairs near the ends of the shoots, and 

 having a cluster of numerous stamens in 

 the centre. They are borne in July and 

 August and give the plant an extremely 

 handsome appearance. 



Culture Ac. as above. 



Tribe TV. Eube^.— 

 Calyx lobes persistent, 

 by the calyx tube. 



RUBUS (Bkamble). — A genus con- 

 taining about 100 distinct species of 

 creeping herbs, or climbing prickly 

 shrubs, with alternate, simple, lobed, 3-5- 

 foliolate or oddly pinnate leaves, with 

 stipules adnate to the stalks. Calyx 

 lobes 5, persistent. Petals 5. Stamens 

 and carpels usually numerous. Fruit con- 

 sisting of fl!eshy drupes aggregated on 

 a conical receptacle (well seen in the. 

 Common Easpberry). 



Culture wnA Propagation. — From a 

 flower garden point of view, only a few of 

 the best Brambles are worthy of cultiva- 

 tion, and even they are chiefly useful for 

 ■clothing unsightly banks or walls or 



■Shrubs or undershrubs, often prickly ; leaves often compound. 

 Stamens and carpels numerous. Drupes many, not enclosed 



rougher parts where little else will grow, 

 or where choicer plants would be out of 

 place. They have the great advantage 

 of flowering freely and growing in the 

 poorest of garden soils, although of course 

 the better the soil, the more vigorous will 

 the plant be. They are easily increased 

 by suckers, division, layers, or seeds. 

 The latter may be sown as soon as ripe 

 either in cold frames for the more tender 

 kinds, or in the open border for the hardier 

 ones. The seedlings may be transplanted 

 in spring during mild weather. It is, 

 however, much quicker to divide the roots, 

 or replant suckers, or to detach the rooted 

 layers. 



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