Kalmia latifolia 26/4 Restock A cross of the Washington

A cross of the Washington navel orange and the inedible but iron-hardy trifoliate orange

and ample water

or in the spray zone of a spring-fed creek

the French missionary-naturalist who botanized across nineteenth-century China and lent his name to the dove tree and to Pere David's deer as well

Kalmia latifolia 26/4 Restock A cross of the WashingtonMountain laurel is the aristocrat of the American heath family (Ericaceae), a broadleaf evergreen native from southern Maine to the Florida panhandle and west toward Indiana and Louisiana, most at home on the acid, rocky slopes of the Appalachians. Linnaeus named the genus Kalmia for his student Pehr Kalm, the Finnish Swedish naturalist who botanized the eastern colonies in the 1740s, and the species epithet latifolia means broad leaved. To gardeners