1135 



PRUNUS candicans. 



In 



/ 



Snowy Plum. 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



C 



Nat. ord. Rosace;e. § Drupacece. 

 PRUNUS. Suprdy vol 2. p. 136. 



ram 



Decand. prodr. 2, 532. 



petiolo 



candicantibusy stipulis angustissimis d 

 rum, calycibus campanulatis. Seringe 



P. candicans. Willd. enum. supph p. 32. " Balbis cat. taur. 1813. p. 62." 

 Folia mollia, oblonga^ simpliciter serrata, subtiis petiolisque pallidis^ 



pubescentihus. 



Jasciculis multifl 



ramulos undique tegentes. Pedicelli calyces^ue pubescentes ; calycis tubus 



patens, lacinice 

 Fructus 



oblonga, ungukulata 



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A fine hardy shrub, apparently not exceeding 5 or 

 feet in height. Its native country is unknown. It was 

 first published by Mr. Balbis, in his Catalogue of the Turin 

 Garden, in 1813 ; and in the same year its name appears 

 in Schlechtendahl's Supplement to Willdenow's Enumera- 

 tion of the Berlin Garden. We believe that the date of 

 its introduction to this country is 1825, in which year 

 plants were received from Messrs. Baumanns, nursery- 

 men at Bollwiller, in Germany, by the Horticultural 

 Society, in whose Garden the accompanying drawing was 

 made, in May 1826. 



This will prove a valuable addition to the hardy shrubs 

 of our country : it is quite hardy, easily cultivated, and in 

 the spring is so laden with white blossoms as to seem a 

 mass of snow amidst the green leaves and rosy flowers 

 of the season. From this circumstance its name has un- 

 doubtedly been taken, and not from any peculiar white- 



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