HIBISCUS 



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pubfiscens, can he grown in Massachusetts) reduced to shrubs and bloom- 

 ing when small. 



LoBLOLLT or Tan 'Bat' (62) — Gordonia Lasidnthus — has a pointed 

 pod and is fully evergreen with 

 glossy notch-edged leaves 4 to 6 

 inches long and pure white flowers 

 2J inches broad in July and August. 



Frahkli'iVia (53) — Gordonia pu- 

 b&oens — has a globular pod and 

 deciduous leaves which turn a bril- 

 liant scarlet before dropping in the 

 autumn. The pure white flowers 

 are 3 inches broad, sillty outside, 

 blooming in September and October. 



There is another plant, always 

 a slirub, probably belonging to this 

 genus, from China, Chinese Goe- 

 DONiA (54) • — Gordonia aridmala. 

 Til is has almost sessile creamy- 

 white flowers 2 to 3 inches broad, 

 in November, and nearly entire- 

 edged darli evergreen oblanceolate 

 leaves 3 to 6 inches long. 



[Seeds ; layers ; twig cuttings.] Yig. 54. —Chinese Gordonia. 



CleySra ochn^cea. Japanese 

 Cleyera (55) is a tender shrub (6 

 feet high) with alternate, glossy, 

 evergreen, entire-edged (except at 

 tip) leaves pointed at both ends ; the 

 flowers are fragrant, numerous, 

 creamy-white in June ; the fruit are 

 red berries which last all winter. 

 Hardy in the Gulf states. There is 

 a variety, tricolor, with grayish 

 blotohings and white and rose-colored 

 edgings to the foliage ; the flower 

 has 5 sepals, 2 bracts, and 5 petals; 

 the berries are 2 to 8-celled. 



[Seeds.] 



Fig. B5. — Japanese Cleyera. 



Hibiscus. The Rose Mallows form a large group of mainly herba- 

 ceous plants with large hollyhock-like flowers. The only woody species 

 apgak's shrubs — 6 



