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¥ C. O.15 midtiplexr Hort., C. O. flore pleno Hort., ( fig. 609. in p. 866.) 
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has double white flowers, which die off of a beautiful pink ; and 
which, being produced in great profusion, and lasting a long time, 
render this a most desirable variety: accordingly, it is to be found 
in almost every shrubbery and garden. 
C. O. 16 rosea Hort. ; E’pinier Marron, Fr. ; (fig. 612. in p. 866.) has 
the petals pink, with white claws, and is a well-known and very 
beautiful variety. Ray informs us that this variety was found in 
an orchard hedge at Gaddington in Northamptonshire, and at Ricot 
Park and elsewhere in Oxfordshire. (Syn., p. 454.) 
C. O. 17 punicea Lodd. Cat., C. O. rosea supérba Hort., has larger 
petals, which are of a dark red, and without white on the claws. 
C. 0. 18 punicea flore pléeno Hort. is said to be of as dark and brilliant 
a red as C. O, punicea, and to have double flowers. We have never 
seen this kind in blossom; but there are young plants of it in the 
Camberwell Nursery; and there is one specimen in the Horticul- 
tural Society’s Garden. 
C. O. 19 fodliis aireis Lodd. Cat. has leaves variegated with yellow ; 
but they have generally aragged and diseased appearance, when fully 
expanded ; though, like those of most other variegated deciduous 
plants, when first opening in spring, they are strikingly showy and 
distinct. 
C. O. 20 felis argénteis Hort. has leaves variegated with white; but, 
like the preceding variety, it cannot be recommended as handsome 
at any other period than when the leaves are first expanding. 
C. O. 21 stricta Lodd. Cat., C. O. rigida Ronalds, has the shoots 
upright, and the general habit as fastigiate as that of a Lombardy 
poplar. It was discovered in a bed of seedlings in Messrs. Ronald’s 
Nursery, about 1825, and forms a very distinct and desirable variety. 
C. O. 22 Celsiana Hort. is also somewhat fastigiate in its habit ; but it 
is a much more slender-growing plant; and we have never seen a 
specimen in a situation where it could display its natural form and 
mode of growth. There are several plants of it at Messrs. Lod- 
diges’s ; but they are all crowded together. 
C. O. 23 péndula Lodd. Cat. has drooping branches. A very marked 
variety of this kind, which was picked out of a bed of seedlings by 
General Monckton, is in the collection of thorns at Somerford 
Hall. The branches come out of the main stem in whorls, and 
hang down almost perpendicularly, so as to give the plant some- 
what the appearance of a distaff. Mr. Anderson, the curator of the 
Chelsea Botanic Garden, obtained pendulous-branched varieties 
of the common thorn, by grafting shoots from those bundles or 
conglomerations of slender shoots, resembling bird’s nests, which 
are sometimes found in old trees; and he observes that, on what- 
ever species of ligneous plant these bird’s-nest-like conglomerations 
of shoots are met with, by grafting them on a tree of the same 
species, they will hang down, and constitute a pendulous variety. 
(See Gard. Mag., vol. ix. p. 596.) 
¥ C. O. 24 regine Hort. Queen Mary’s Thorn. — The parent tree is in a 
garden near Edinburgh, which once belonged to the Regent Murray, 
and is now, 1836, in the possession of Mr. Cowan, a paper manufac- 
turer. It is very old, and its branches have somewhat of a drooping 
character; but whether sufficiently so to constitute a variety worth 
propagating as a distinct kind, appears to us very doubtful. It may be 
interesting, however, to some Scotchmen, to continue by extension 
the individual tree under which the unfortunate queen is supposed to 
have spent many hours. The fruit of this variety is rather above 
the middle size, long, fleshy, of a deep red, and good to eat. A 
lithographic impression of this tree has been sent us by Dr. Neill, 
