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joints, at which it readily strikes root; and is, consequently, very easily 
propagated. It has been tried by Mr. Knight, as a fruit tree; and he finds 
that it forces in pots better than any other variety. In the year 1824, 
a plant in a pot, in the peach-house of the London Horticultural Society’s 
Garden at Chiswick, produced a crop of fruit, which ripened within 50 
days from the time the blossoms opened. Mr. Knight tried some ex- 
periments with this tree, in his hot-houses at Downton Castle; where 
he found that, ina hot moist climate, it put out very numerous roots 
from the bases of its young branches; and that it might be very readily 
propagated by cuttings of these branches. (See Hort. Trans., vol. vii., 
or Gard. Mag., vol. iii. p. 182.) The tree is a desirable one for small gar- 
dens, on account of its very early flowering; and should be grouped along 
with Armeniaca sibirica, which flowers a little before it, being the earliest 
of the apricots and plums. 
% 6. C. CHame&cE’RASUs Lois. The Ground Cherry Tree, or Siberian 
Cherry. 
Identification. Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 29.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 537.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 513. 
Synonymes. C. intermédia Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p.30,; Primus intermédia Poir. Dict., 5. 
p. 674.; P. fruticdsa Padl., according to Besser; Cérasus pimila C. Bawh., according to Pall. Fl. 
Ross. ; Chamecérasus fruticdsa Pers. Syn., 2. p. 34. 
Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. p. 29. t. 5. f£ A; Hayne Abbilc., t. 61.; and our fig. 408. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous, 
glossy, crenate, bluntish, rather coriaceous, scarcely 
glanded. Flowers in umbels, which are usually 
on peduncles, but short ones. Pedicels of the 
fruit longer than the leaves. Fruit round, reddish 
purple, very acid. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 537.) A 
shrub, growing to the height of 3ft. or 4 ft., a native 
of Siberia and Germany, introduced in 1587, and 
producing its white flowers in May, and ripening its 
fruit in August. It forms a neat little narrow-leaved 
bush, which, when grafted standard high, becomes 
a small round-headed tree, with drooping branches, 
at once curious and ornamental. It does not 
grow above a fourth part of the size of C. sem- 
perflorens ; and, like it, it flowers and fruits during 
great part of the summer. 
x 7. C. prosTRA'TA Ser. The prostrate Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Seringe in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 538. ; Don’s Mill, 2. p. 514. 
Synonymes. Prinus prostrata Lab, Pl. Syr. Dec., 1. p.15., Lovs.in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 182.; Amyg- 
oles ie ae Fl. Ross., 1. p. 13., according to Loiseleur ; Primus incana Steven in Mém. Soc. 
Kara N. Du Ham, 5. t. 53. f. 2.; Pall. FL Ross., 1. t.7., according to Loiseleur ; Bot. Mag., 
t. 136.; and our fig. 409. 
Spec. Char., §c. Decumbent. 
Leaves ovate, serrately cut, 
glandless, tomentose, and 
hoary beneath. Flowers , 
mostly solitary, nearly ses- - 
sile. Calyx tubular. Petals 
ovate, retuse, rose-coloured. 
Fruit ovate, red; flesh thin. 
(Dec. Prod., ii. p. 538.) A 
prostrate shrub, a native of 
the mountains of Candia, of 
Mount Lebanon, and of Si- 
beria. It was introduced in 1802, and produces its rose-coloured flowers 
in April and May. There are plants of it in Loddiges’s arboretum. _ 


¥ 8. C. PersiciFo‘Lia Lois. The Peach-tree-leaved Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p.9.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 537.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 513. 
Synonymes. Prunus persicif dlia Desf. Arb., 2. p. 205. 

