Volume V Part 10 (2/2)
It has been customary, in consideration of its native place of growth, to treat it here as a greenhouse plant, for which situation it soon becomes unfit from its magnitude; some have ventured to plant it in the open borders in warm sheltered situations, where it has been found to succeed very well, producing its beautiful yellow blossoms in abundance; care must be taken, however, to guard it carefully from severe frosts, which are apt to destroy it.
It flowers in May and June, and is usually propagated by cuttings or layers.
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KALMIA LATIFOLIA. BROAD-LEAV'D KALMIA.
_Cla.s.s and Order._
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
_Generic Character._
_Calyx_ 5-part.i.tus. _Cor._ hypocrateriformis: limbo subtus quinquecorni.
_Caps._ 5-locularis.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
KALMIA _latifolia_ foliis ovato-ellipticis ternis sparsisque, corymbis terminalibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 64. ed. 14. Murr._ _Ait.
Hort. Kew. V. 2. p. 64._
ANDROMEDA foliis ovatis obtusis, corollis corymbosis infundibuliformis, genitalibus declinatis. _Fl. Virg. 160._
CHAMaeDAPHNE foliis tini, floribus bullatis. _Catesb. Car. 11. t. 98._
CISTUS chamaerhododendros Mariana laurifolia, floribus expansis, summo ramulo in umbellam plurimis. _Pluk. mant. 49. t. 379. s. 6._ The common Laurel, vulgarly called Ivy.
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Professor KALM (in honour of whom LINNaeUS, as before has been observed, named this genus of plants) in his travels into North-America, published in English by Mr. FORSTER, relates that he found this species in various provinces of that extensive continent, as Pensylvania, New-Jersey, and New-York, growing most commonly on the sides of hills, sometimes in woods; that it flourished most on the northern sides of the hills, especially where they were intersected by rivulets; he observes, that when all the other trees had lost their ornaments, this enlivened the woods by the verdure of its foliage, and that about the month of May, it was covered with a profusion of blossoms of unrivalled beauty.
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CYTISUS LABURNUM. COMMON LABURNUM.
_Cla.s.s and Order._
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
_Generic Character._
_Cal._ 2-l.a.b.i.atus: 2/3. _Legumen_ basi attenuatum.
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