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don Horticultural Society’s Garden, in Loddiges’s arboretum, and at Syon, 
we think it will be difficult to discover anything like a specific distinction, or 
even sufficient to constitute a race. 
Statistics. Under the name of C. serétina, we have received the dimensions of several trees, which 
we consider as those of C. virginiana; but we have placed them under this head, in conformity with 
the name sent us. In Surrey, at Bagshot Park, 40 years planted, and 35 ft. high. In Buckinghamshire, 
at Temple House, 40 years planted, and 30 ft. high. In Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, 6 years planted, 
and 10 ft. high. In Yorkshire, at Grimstone, 13 years planted, and 20 ft. high. In Scotland, in 
Stirlingshire, at Callander Park, 16 years planted, and 20 ft. high. In France, at Barres, 13 years planted, 
and 18 ft. high. In Switzerland, in the Botanic Garden at Geneva, 35 ft. high, with a trunk 92 in, 
in diameter. Price as in C. virginiana. 
*% 25. C. (v.) Capo’LLin Dec. The Capollin Bird Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 539., Don’s Miil., 2. p. 515. 
Synonymes. Priduus virginiana Flora Mewzic. ic. and MSS.; P. canadénsis Moc. et Sesse, Pl. Mew. 
Ic. ined., Hern. Mex., 95. 
Engravings. ¥1. Mex. icon. ined. ; Pl. Mex. icon. ined. ; Hern. Mex. Icon., 95.; and our fig. 420. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, 4.20 
serrated, and glabrous, resembling i 
in form, and nearly in size, those of 
Salix fragilis, Racemes lateral and 
terminal. Fruit globose, resembling, J 
in form and colour, that of C. syl- 
véstris. A native of Mexico, in tem- 
perate and cold places. (Dec. Prod., 
li, p. 539.) Seringe doubts whether 
the racemes are not slightly com- 
pound. Those preduced on a plant 
bearing the name of this species, in 
the London Horticultural Society’s 
Garden, are not. Its leaves, also, 
are much too broad and elliptical 
to resemble those of 8. fragilis ; but 
the leaves, the flowers, and the 
whole tree, bear so much resem- 
blance to C. virginiana, that we have 
no doubt of its being only a variety 
of that species, but of larger and 
more luxuriant growth. There are plants in the London Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, in Loddiges’s arboretum, and in the Hammersmith Nur- 
sery, which come into leaf, flower, and drop their leaves, at the same time 
as C. virginiana; but a vigorous tree, against a wall in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, which flowers and fruits freely, retains its leaves nearly all 
the winter, in consequence of the protection it receives from the wall. This 
variety appears to have been introduced in 1820, by the London Horti- 
cultural Society; and it certainly deserves culture with C. virginiana, in 
preference to C, serétina, on account of its greater distinctness. The bark 
is said to be employed, in Mexico, as a febrifuge. 
¥# 26. C. (v.) canape’nsis Lois. The Canadian Bird Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5.p.3.; Dec, Prod., 2. p. 539.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 515, 
Synonymes. Prinus canadénsis Willd. Sp., 2. p.986., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 530. 
Engraving. Pluk. Alm., t. 158. f, 4. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves glandless ; the disk broadly lanceolate, tapered into the petiole, wrinkled, 
downy, and green upon both surfaces. A native of North America. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 539.) Pursh 
says, ** I strongly suspect this to be nothing more than P. hyemalis.” In the Nouveau Du Hamel, 
and in Don’s Miller, it is characterised as a bird cherry tree; and in the latter as growing to the 
height of 20 ft. or 30 ft.; and as having been introduced in 1820, and producing its white flowers 
in May and June. We have never seen the plant. 
% 27, C. NEPALE’NsIs Ser. The Nepal Bird Cherry Tree. 
Identification. Sexinge in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 540.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 515. 
Spec. Char., &c, Leaves resembling in form those of Salix fragilis ; long, lanceolate, acuminate, ser- 
rate, with blunt teeth, glabrous, whitish beneath ; the veins much reticulated ; and the axils of the 
larger of them hairy. Peduncle short, and, as well as the rachis, slightly villose. Calyx glabrous. 
A native of Nepal. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 540.) In Don’s Miller, this species of bird cherry is said to 
have been introduced in 1820; but we have never seen a plant of it. 

