CHiMAPHiLA And pyrola 



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some have suoh beauty of evergreen foliage and of blossom as to induce 

 meto mention and figure them. The one with the most beautiful foliage 



Fig. 460. — Southern Buckthorn. 



Fig. 461. — Oleander. 



is the Spotted Wintergreen (454) — Chimaphila maculdta, — with 

 notched dark green leaves mottled with white along the veins. A slightly 

 taller plant with similar flowers.but 

 with unmottled bright green leaves 

 is the PipsissEvvA (455) — Chima- 

 phila umbelUta. Still other winter- 

 greens are occasionally cultivated 

 belonging 'to the genus Pyrola ; 

 they are practically stemless plants 

 with clusters of nodding flowers 

 on stalks 4 to 20 inches tall. All 

 form 5-valved many-seeded pods. 

 Two of these Pyrola wiotergreens 

 worthy of mention are Round- 

 LKAVED "Wintergreen — PjTola 

 americ^na — and Greenish-flow- 

 ered WiNTBEGKEEN (450) — Pyrola 

 chlordntha. The Pyrolas and Chi- 

 maphilas are difficult to cultivate 

 and succeed only in shady places 

 in peaty soil. When removing 



Fig. 462. — Sweet-scented Oleander. 



