| | | | hot, dry places.
| | | |
34. Blue huckleberry | 1-4 | Pink |Dry soil[5]|The profusion of tiny bell-like flowers appearing
(Vaccinium vaccillans)| | | | with the leaves makes this attractive.
| | | | Fruits purple-black.
| | | |
35. Common lilac | 4-10 | Lilac |Ordinary |Cultivated everywhere and sometimes escaped
(Syringa vulgaris) | | |garden soil| from gardens. There are scores of attractive
| | | | hybrids and forms.
| | | |
36. American fly | 2-4 |Greenish- |Moist |Easily grown in ordinary garden soil, but prefers
honeysuckle (Lonicera | | yellow| woods| shade. Best planted along shaded walks.
ciliata) | | | |
--------------------------+------+-----------+-----------+-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------+------+-----------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------
Common and Latin |Height| Color of | Preferred | Remarks and Notes
Names |(feet)| Flowers | Habitat |
-------------------------+------+-----------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------
37. Fly honeysuckle | 2-6 |Pinkish- |Indifferent|Sometimes an escape from cultivation. The
(Lonicera Xylosteum) | | white| | scarlet berries are showy in the early fall.
| | | |
38. Tartarian bush | 3-8 |Pinkish- |Indifferent|_L. oblongifolia_ with purplish-yellow flowers in
honeysuckle (Lonicera| | white| | May and June is attractive. Not in the
Tatarica) | | | | catalogue.
| | | |
MAY-JUNE | | | |
| | | |
39. Chinquapin (Castanea | 5-8 |Brownish- |Dry soil |Apt to be affected with the chestnut blight.
pumila) | | green| | The long catkins and fruit are interesting
| | | | but not showy.
| | | |
40. Magnolia (Magnolia | 4-10 | White |Swamps |Can also be grown very well on dry ground
glauca) | | | and bogs| and in any garden soil. Fruits rose red.
| | | |
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