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the severity of New England winters. Besides propagation by seeds, 
which will hardly have time to ripen in this latitude, this Clerodendron 
may be increased by cuttings from the shoots or roots. 
other early writers, although reduced to the rank of a variety of C. 
alnifolia by Michaux. It is a hundred years since it became known in 
European gardens. Later botanists, however, seem to consider it asibut 
Fig. 39— PEASGOOD’S NONESUCH APPLE, GROWN BY MR. S. BARLOW., (See page 33C.) 
An interesting plant for gardens is a Clethra from the Southern 
States, to which Lamarck, in his “ Botanical Dictionary,” gave the name 
of the Cottony Clethra, or Clethra tomentosa, a name which was pre¬ 
served by De Candolle in his “ Prodromus ” and kept up by Loudon and 
a mere form of the common Sweet Pepperbush (C. alnifolia), and we 
look in vain for any reference to it, either by name or description, in the 
last edition of Gray’s “ Manual.” In some of the earlier editions of the. 
“ Manual,” however, it is stated that “ in the Southern States are 
