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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUlNr. 



PART III. 



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, in a 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 brandies. (See Horl. 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 Howering; and should be grouped along 

 with Jrmeniaca sibirica, which flowers a little before it, being the earliest 

 of the apricots and plums. 



« 6. C. ChaMjECe'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. 

 Synonyiies. C. intermt-dia Lois, in A'. Du Ham., 5. p.30. ; /"rtinus intermedia Pair. Diet., r>. 



p. 674. ; P. frutic6sa Pa/t., according to Bes.ier ; CiJrasus pfimila C. Baiifi., according to Palf. Ft. 



Ross. ; C'hamaDcera'ius Iruticosa Pers. Si/n., 2. p. .'54. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., .5. p 29. t. 5. f A ; Hayne Abbild., t. Gl. ; and our fg. 408. 



Sjiec. Char., Sfc. 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. .5.37.) A 

 shrub, growing to the height of 3 ft. or 4 ft., a native 

 of Siberia and Germany, introduced in lo87,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 ('. sem- 

 perflorens; and, like it, it flowers and fruits during 

 great part of the summer. 



J: 7. C. I'RosTRATA Ser. The prostrate Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Scringe in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 5.38. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 514. 



Synonyincs. Prunus prostrita Lab. PI. .Si/r. Dec, I. p. )5., Lois, in N. Du IIam.,F). p. 182. ; y4myg- 



dalus incana PalL Ft. Ross., 1. p. 13., according to Loiscleur; Priinus inctina Steven in ^Wm. Soc. 



Mosq., 3. p. 26,3. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t 53. f. 2. ; Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 7., according to Loiseleur ; Bot. Mag., 



t. 1.36. ; and our fig. 4(;9. 



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., v. 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. 



Iilentification. Lois, in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 9. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. .5.37. ; Don's Mill., 2, p. 513. 

 Synonymes. Primus persicif 61ia Desf. Arl>., 2. p. 205. 



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