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TREES OP THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 



Handsome shrub or small tree (10 to 15 ft.), wild south in the moun- 

 tains, and hardy and cultivated as far north as New York City with- 

 out protection. In Massachusetts it needs some sheltered position. 



2. Stuartia Virginica, Cav. (VIR- 

 GINIA STUARTIA.) Leaves elliptic-ovate, 

 acuminate at both ends, 2 in. long, 1 in. 

 wide, thin, serrate, silky pubescent be- 

 neath. Flowers white with purple fila- 

 ments and blue anthers. Pod globular 

 and blunt ; ripe in October. A beautiful 

 shrub rather than tree (8 to 12 ft.), wild 

 in Virginia and south ; hardy as far 

 north as Washington. 



GENUS 8. GORDONIA. 



Shrubs or small trees with alter- 

 s. virginica. na t e , simple, feather- vein ed leaves. 



Flowers large (3 to 4 in. wide), white, showy, solitary in 

 the axils of the leaves. Blooming in summer. Fruit a 

 dry, dehiscent, conical-pointed, 5-celled capsule with 10 

 to 30 seeds, ripe in the autumn. 



1. Gordonia Lasianthus, L. (LOBLOLLY 

 BAY. ) Leaves thick, evergreen, lanceolate-ob- 

 long, minutely serrate, nearly sessile, smooth 

 and shining on both sides. The large, soli- 

 tary, sweet-scent- 

 ed, axillary flow- 

 ers on peduncles i 

 half as long as the 



leaves. A large tree (30 to 70 ft. high) 

 in the south (wild in southern Virginia), 

 and cultivated as far north as central 

 Pennsylvania, without protection ; at St. 

 Louis and Boston it needs protection. 

 Wood of a reddish color, light and brittle. 



2. Gordonia pubescens, L'Her. Leaves 

 thin, deciduous, obovate-oblong, sharply 

 serrate, white beneath. Flowers nearly 

 o. putescens. sessile. A small tree or shrub of the 



G. Lasidnthus. 



