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.
| 1834 Bot. Reg. XX. 1686 Garrya elliptica. Elliptic-leaved Garrya. 1854 Explor. 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. 1893 A. D. Webster Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees & Shrubs 50 There are male and female plants of the Garrya, and..the former is the more ornamental. 1937 C. H. Middleton Winter-flowering Plants 61 Young Garryas do not transplant readily. 1963 Oxf. Bk. Garden Flowers p. viii, Garrya does best if grown on a wall or sunny bank. |