CHAP. XLII. ROSA‘CEX. PE'RSICA. 679 
Commercial Statistics. Standards of the common almond, in the London 
nurseries, are ls. 6d. each; at Bollwyller, 1 franc; and at New York, 50 cents. 
A. c. macrocarpa, in the London nurseries, is from Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. a plant. 
% 3. A. oRIENTA‘LIS Att. The Eastern Almond Tree. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., i. p. 162., ed. 2., iii. p.195.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.530.; Don’s 
Petites | a argéntea Lam. Dict., 1. p. 103., N. Du Ham., 3. p. 115. 
Engraving. Lodd. Bot. Cat., t. 1137. 4 
Spec. Char., §c. Imperfectly evergreen. Branches and leaves clothed with 
a silvery tomentum; petiole of the leaf short, the disk lanceolate and 
entire. Flowers rose-coloured, and rather longer than those of A. nana. 
Calyx cylindrically bell-shaped. Fruit tipped with a point. (Dec. Prod., ii. 
p. 530.) A tall shrub or low tree, growing to the height of 8 ft. or 10 ft. ; 
and, according to Bosc, to the height of 15 ft. or 20 ft. It is a native of 
the Levant ; introduced in 1756, and flowering in March and April. It is 
very striking, from the hoary, or rather silvery, appearance of its leaves ; 
and it makes a handsome plant when budded standard high on the common 
almond or the plum. Specimens so budded may be seen in the Hammer- 
smith Nursery. It flowers less freely than the preceding sort ; but deserves 
a place in collections on account of its fine silvery foliage. 
App. i. Other Species of Amygdalus. 
We have little doubt in our own mind, that all the foregoing sorts, except the last, belong to 4. nana 
and 4. communis; and that the almond, the peach, and the nectarine are as much modifications of 
one species, as the different varieties of cabbages are of the wild plant, Brassica olerAcea. We admit 
the convenience, however, of giving the sorts different names, and keeping them distinct ; and we 
have accordingly done so. To the kinds we have already enumerated we may add some others, 
which, whether they are varieties or species, we are unable to determine; but we see nothing in the 
specific character to render it impossible that they may be only varieties ; and, when we consider the 
different modifications which the tree undergoes, under the different circumstances of climate and 
culture to which it has been subjected, we incline, as usual, to the side of simplification. 
% A. Tournefortii Bose is said to be found in Asia Minor, Persia, and the adjoining countries. 
Rosier, and other French authors, consider it as the original type of the common species ; but Bosc, 
who cultivated it in Carolina, says he considers it as a distinct species, because the extremities of its 
shoots were not thorny, as those of the common almond are in a perfectly wild state ; and because it 
only grows to 3ft. or 4ft. in height. (Bosc, in N. Cours complet d’ Agriculture, art. Amandier.) 
*% A. cochinchinénsis Lour. F 1. Cochin., p. 316. Native of Cochin-China, in woods. Corolla white. 
Kernel like the common almond in form and smell, Tree from 30 ft. to 40 tt. high. (Don’s Miil., ii. 
. 493.) 
5 SE A. microphglia H. B. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. Amer., 6. p. 245. t. 564, Native of Mexico, between 
Pachucha and Moran, on arid hills, at the height of 3900 ft. Flowers small, pink. Shrub, 3 ft. high. 
(Don’s Miil., ii. p. 493.) 
Genus II. 
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PE’RSICA Tourn. Tue Peacu Tree. Lin. Syst. Icosandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Tourn. Inst., t. 400. ; Mill. Dict.; Dec. Fl. Fr., 487.; Don’s Mill. 2. p. 483. 
Synonymes. Amygdalus sp. of Lin. and Juss. ; Trichocarpus Neck. Elem., No. 718.; Pécher, Fr. ; 
Pfirschenbaum, Ger. 
Derivation. So named from the peach coming originally from 396 
Persia. 
Description, §c. The species are well-known fruit 
trees, in cultivation in gardens throughout the tem- 
perate regions of the world: in the middle and 
south of Europe, the fruit ripens in the open air ; 
but in the north of Germany and Russia, and in 
Denmark and Sweden, only against a wall, or under 
glass. The species have the same medicinal pro- 
perties as those of Amfgdalus, but in a slighter 
degree. The peach and the nectarine are by some 
botanists made distinct species; but there can be 
no doubt of their being only varieties of one kind, 

