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times much later. The fruit of all of them is not only eatable, 

 but very good. C. Orientalis and C. tanacetifolia have both 

 whitish leaves ; the fruit of the first is of a brilliant coral colour, 

 and of the latter yellow. There is a variety of the first species 

 with fruit of a port-wine colour ; and Lee's seedling variety of the 

 latter is one of the handsomest plants of the genus. Notwith- 

 standing the resemblance of the leaves, these two species are 

 easily distinguished, not only by the colour of the fruit, but by 

 their habits of growth ; C. orientalis being a handsome spreading 

 tree, and C. tanacetifolia upright-growing. 



One of the late flowering varieties is C. parviflora, which does 

 not flower till late in June, and which bears pear-shaped green 

 fruit. The leaves of this species and its varieties, and of C. 

 virginica, are very small, C. cordata is the latest flowering of all 

 the kinds, as it rarely produces its flowers before the middle of 

 July. There are many other species, and among others C. mi- 

 crocarpa, with its brilliant bright scarlet fruit, and C. mexicana, 

 with its large yellow fruit, looking like golden pippin apples ; but 

 we have said enough to show what ornamental plants the thorns 

 are, not only in their flowers, but in their fruit. Crataegus, or 

 mespilns pyracantha, may be added to the above, as it is a very 

 ornamental shrub, not only from its evergreen leaves, but from 

 its brilliant scarlet berries, which are so abundant as to occasion 

 the French to call it buisson ardent. In short, every tree belong- 

 ing to the genus is worth growing ; and I am glad to see that Mr. 

 Loudon in the "Arboretum Britannicum," and Dr. Lindley in 

 the " Botanical Register," have contrived within the last two or 

 three years to bring ornamental thorns into fashion. 



The amelanchiers, the commonest species of which is well known 

 under the name of the snowy mespilus ; the coteneasters with 

 their coral berries ; the ornamental kinds of pyrus, including the 

 mountain ash, the Siberian crab, the garland flowering apple-tree, 

 and showy Chinese crab-tree ; the Photinia serrulata, with it large 

 showy bunches of flowers, and beautifully-tinted leaves in spring 

 and autumn ; the loquat-tree, with its large woolly leaves ; the 

 Nepal white-beam tree, and many others, deserve especial notice 

 from the planter and landscape gardener. 



Among the flowering trees of May and June may be reckoned 

 that splendid climber Wistaria sonsequana, or, as some call it, 

 Glycine sinensis. The flowers of this tree resemble those of the 

 laburnam in form, but are of a delicate lilac. Nothing can exceed 



