CHAP. XLII. ROSA‘CE&. CRATE GUS. 817 
¥ C. c. 2 cordllina. C. corallina Lodd. Cat.; the C. pyriférmis of some col- 
lections. (ig. 565. in p. 852.)—The leaves, and the entire plant, are, 
perhaps, rather smaller than in the species; the habit of the tree is 
decidedly more upright and fastigiate ; and the fruit is smaller, long, 
and of a fine coral red; whence the name is probably derived, 
though, in the first edition of the Horticultural Society’s Catalogue, 
it is called the red-branched hawthorn. The plants at Messrs. 
Loddiges’s, however, exhibit only a slight degree of redness in the 
branches of the young wood. 
¥ C.c. 3 indentdta. C. indentataLodd. Cat. (fig. 566. in p.852.)\—The 
leaves are smaller, and less lobed, than those of the species; the 
the plant is, also, weaker, of upright habit, and with a smooth clear 
bark. 
¥ C. c. 4 méxima Lodd. Cat. C.c¢. spindsa Godefroy; C. ? flabellata 
Hort.—The leaves are larger than those of any other variety ; and 
the fruit is also large. As we have not seen living plants of C. flabel- 
lata, but only dried specimens sent from Terenure and the Hum- 
beque Nursery, we are not absolutely certain that C. flabellata and 
C. c. maxima are the same ; but we feel quite certain that they both 
belong to C, c. coccinea. We are informed that the C, flabellata of 
some nurseries is C, tanacetifolia; which certainly has its leaves 
more flabellate, or fan-like, than any variety of C. coccinea. 
Statistics. The general rate of growth of C. coccinea, in the environs of London, is 10 ft. in 5 
years, or 20ft. in 10 years. There are old trees, between 20 ft. and 30 ft. high, at Syon, at Purser’s 
Cross, at Kew, and at Ham House. In Kensington Gardens, a little to the right of the north 
entrance, there is a tree 20ft. high, with diameter of the head 50 ft., and of the trunk 14in. In 
Gloucestershire, at Doddington, 30 years planted, the tree is 20 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 
being 16in., and of the head 20 ft. In Lancashire, at Latham House, 14 years planted, it is 19 ft. 
high. In Worcestershire, at Croome, 25 years planted, it is 25ft. high; at Hagley, 12 years planted, 
and 20ft. high. At Yorkshire, at Grimston, 14 years ‘planted, and 25 ft. high. In Scotland, in 
Ross-shire, at Brahan Castle, 26 ft. high. In Ireland,in the neighbourhood of Dublin, at Tere- 
nure, 25 ft. high; and at Oriel Temple, 23 ft. high. In France, in the Jardin des Plantes, it 
is 30 ft high; at Nantes, in the nursery of M. De Nerriéres, 20 ft. high. In Saxony, at Wor- 
litz, 56 years planted, and 30 ft.high. In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic Gar- 
den, 20ft. high. In Prussia, in the Pfauen Insel, 20 years planted, and 10 ft. high. In Bavaria, 
at Munich, in the Botanic Garden, 24 years planted, and 20 ft, high. In Hanover, at Gottingen, 
in the Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, and 16ft. high. Inj Italy, at Monza, 24 years planted, 
and 20 ft. high, 
¥ 2, C, GLANDULO‘sA W. The glandular Thorn, 
Identification. Willd. Sp., 2. p. 1002., not of Michx.; Pursh! Amer. Sept., 1. p.337.; Dee. Prod, 2. 
p. 627. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 599. 
Synonymes. ? C. sanguinea Pail, Fl. Ross., 1. t.11.; ? Méspilus rotundifolia Ehrh, Beitr., 3. p. 20. 5 
Pyrus glandulosa Meench; C. rotundifolia Booth. 
Engravings. ? Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 11.; Lod. Bot. Cab., t. 1012.; Dend. Brit., t. 58.; our fig. 567. 
in p. 853. ; and the plate of this species in our Second Volume. ; 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves with the disk obovate-wedge-shaped, angled, glabrous, 
glossy. Petioles, stipules, and sepals glanded. Fruit oval, scarlet ; nuts 
4—5; flesh hard and dry. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 627.) A tree, a native of 
North America, in Canada and on the Alleghany Mountains, and also 
found on the Rocky Mountains. It was introduced into England in 1750, 
and forms a low, compact, bushy-headed tree, seldom exceeding 12 ft, or 
15 ft. in height. It differs from the preceding sort in the stipules and 
calyxes being glandular, and in the head of the tree forming a dense mass 
of small twigs. This last circumstance, taken together with the size of the 
leaves and fruit, induces us to think that it may be only a stunted variety 
of C. coccinea. This might be tested by sowing its seeds, which are ripened 
about the same time as those of C. coccinea, and observing what kind of plants 
were produced. If several-of these turned out to be C. coccinea, our con- 
jecture would be confirmed. This sort of Cratae\gus being a small compact 
tree, of rather a fastigiate habit, and of comparatively slow growth, and yet 
being very prolific in its flowers and fruit, is well adapted for small gardens ; 
and, if it comes true from seed, it would form the next best hedge plant to 
C. Oxyacantha. There are specimens of this tree at White Knights, which, 
in 25 years, have attained the height of 14 ft.; and at Croome, which, in 30 
years, have attained the height of 25 ft. 
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