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garrya Bot.|ˈgærɪə|
[mod.L. (D. Douglas 1834, in Bot. Reg. XX. 1686), f. the name of Nicholas Garry (see prec.).]
An evergreen shrub of the genus so called, esp. Garrya elliptica, which is native to California and Oregon, and cultivated for the ornamental catkins it bears during the winter.
1834Bot. Reg. XX. 1686 Garrya elliptica. Elliptic-leaved Garrya. 1854Explor. Route to Pacific (U.S. War Dept.) Botany IV. 136 Colonel Frémont found on the Upper Sacramento, ‘above the Great Cañon’, in 1846, a Garrya nearly allied to this species. 1893A. D. Webster Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees & Shrubs 50 There are male and female plants of the Garrya, and..the former is the more ornamental. 1937C. H. Middleton Winter-flowering Plants 61 Young Garryas do not transplant readily. 1963Oxf. Bk. Garden Flowers p. viii, Garrya does best if grown on a wall or sunny bank. |