JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 1914. 85 



37610 to 37612— Continued. 



37612. Viburnum sargenti Koehne. 



" This shrub usually grows from 5 to 8 feet tall, with upright branches 

 which, on adult plants, assume a dark-gray, corky appearance. The 

 leaves are roundish ovate to ovate, usually 3-lobed, rounded to square at 

 the base, 1\ inches long and 2 inches broad, dark yellowish green and 

 smooth above, pale green and somewhat pilose beneath. The fiattish 

 corymbose flower cluster, with prominent showy neutral flowers sur- 

 rounded by the corymbs, and the fertile flowers with purple anthers 

 come in blossom about the first of June. The subglobose or rounded 

 fruit, scarlet or orange-scarlet, ripens in September. This species greatly 

 resembles Viburnum arnericana, but differs from it in its more upright 

 habit, largely ray flowers, and the fruits are not as brilliant and are 

 considerably smaller and less abundant. Viburnum sargenti is perfectly 

 hardy at Rochester, N. Y., and there it is a very useful park and garden 

 shrub." (The Florists' Exchange, May 20, 1911). 



37613 to 37622. 



From Cambridge, England. Presented by Mr. R. Irwin Lynch, curator, 

 Botanic Garden. Received March 24, 1914. 



37613. Amygdalus persica L. Peach. 

 (Prunus persica Stokes.) 



37614. Cydonia oblonga Miller. Quince. 

 (Pyrus cydonia L.) 



See S. P. I. No. 30059 for previous introduction and description. 



37615. Laurocerasus lusitanica (L.) Roem. 



(Prunus lusitanica L.) Portuguese cherry laurel. 



"An evergreen shrub of wide, bushy form, usually 10 to 20 feet, but 

 occasionally 40 to 50 feet high, more in diameter ; young branches quite 

 smooth and very dark. Leaves ovate or oval, 2| to 5 inches long, 1| to 2 

 inches wide ; quite smooth on both surfaces ; very dark, glossy green 

 above, paler below ; shallowly roundish toothed. Racemes produced in 

 June from the ends of the previous summer's shoots and from the axils 

 of their leaves ; 6 to 10 inches long, 1 to 1J inches through, more or loss 

 erect. Flowers white, one-third to one-half inch across, calyx cup shaped, 

 with shallow, rounded lobes ; stalk one-third of an inch long. Fruit 

 dark purple, one-third of an inch long, cone shaped, pointed. 'Native of 

 Spain and Portugal; introduced in 1648* (Alton). In all but the coldest 

 parts of Great Britain the Portugal laurel is one of the handsomest and 

 most effective of evergreens. It should be grown as isolated specimens, 

 especially in thinly wooded parts of the grounds. Although it is chiefly 

 valued for the luxuriance of its rich green lustrous foliage, it has some 

 merit as a flowering shrub, for in June it produces an extraordinary pro- 

 fusion of long, slender racemes, whose only defect is that the (lowers are 

 rather dull. It is hardier than the cherry laurel, and on warm, well- 

 drained soil withstands 32 degrees of frost without being in the least 

 affected." ( W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 

 vol. 2, p. 21,1). 



37616. Malus baccata (L.) Moench. Siberian crab apple. 

 (Pyrus baccata L.) 



See S. P. I. Nos. 26681 and 31028 for previous introductions. 



