1801 
* PRÜNUS japonica. 
The Single Chinese Plum. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. RosacEz, S AMyGpALE&, Juss. (Introduction lo the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 81.) 
PRUNUS.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 136. 
P. japonica. Supra, vol. 1. fol. 27. The double state. 
It is always interesting to procure the wild forms of 
cultivated species, and so see from what humble originals 
Nature produces some of the most striking of her works. 
The double Chinese Plum, or Almond, as it is often 
incorrectly called, is beyond all comparison the handsomest 
plant of its season; there is nothing to vie with its 
crowded clusters of most delicate blushing flowers, the 
petals of which are loosely, but symmetrically, arranged into 
the most perfect of vegetable beauties. The simple shrub 
now represented is its origin, and is one of the many 
examples of the creation by the patient Chinese of the 
fairest ornaments of the garden, from the most inconspicuous 
plants of the woods. 
For its introduction the public is indebted to John 
Reeves, Esq., by whom so large a proportion of all the fine 
Chinese flowers now common all over Europe have been 
procured for this country. 
It appears tobé a hardy shrub ; our specimen, however, 
was taken in January last, from a plant which had flowered 
In a greenhouse. 
The double state of the species is represented in the 
first volume of this work. 
* See folio 1243. 
