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est certain que cette espèce est susceptible d’être acclimatée 
comme les rosages et les azalées et que dans peu de temps 
elle sera un des plus beaux ornements de nos jardins.” 
The leaves are glaucous, and the flowers are rose-coloured. 
M. Morren states that M. Jacob Makoy has also raised the 
Befaria coarctata of Humboldt and Bonpland. 
50. PRUNUS Pseudocerasus. ? 
Lindl. in Trans. Hort. Soc. 
What appears to be this plant, at present so little known 
in gardens, has produced its fruit in the garden of O. F. 
Meyrick, Esq. of Bodorgan, to whose gardener, Mr. C. Ewing, 
we are indebted for a specimen of it. 
The fruit is about as large as a sparrow’s egg, of a reddish 
amber colour, and furnished at its point with a conical 
tumour, such as is found on the Peach called the Têton de 
Venus. It is sweet, tender, and very pleasant to eat. Mr. 
Ewing gives us the following account of it. 
** The tree was imported from China some years ago by a 
merchant in Lancashire—I think from the neighbourhood of 
Pekin—and is, I imagine, perfectly new to this country. A: 
remarkable circumstance connected with it is that cuttings 
will strike root as freely as those of a willow; in fact, roots 
several inches in length protrude at the joints of the stronger 
branches several feet above the ground, in the same way 
as roots are produced from the young shoots of a vine. 
On account of the tree having been kept in a strong heat, 
however, in order to make it form a large plant, the spe- 
cimens of fruit sent are inferior to the usual produce. 
‘ There is one great object to recommend the culture cf 
this Cherry; viz. it will stand any hardship in forcing, and 
it is no difficult thing to have a crop of ripe fruit from it by 
Christmas day. Moreover, the fruit when well grown is equal 
to that of the May Duke. The plant altogether has more 
the appearance of an elm than anything else to which I can 
compare it." . 
We are, however, not certain that the plant is really 
Pr. Pseudocerasus, notwithstanding its general resemblance, 
and the remarkable tendency to root from the old stems; for 
the leaves are stiffer, more oblong, and broader, and they 
have much shorter leaf-stalks: but at present the infor- 
June.— F. G 
