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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



not of Waldst. et Kit., according to Willd. Enum., 541. ; S. cai-- 

 pinifolia Willd. Enum., p. 5-10., and Doll's Mill., ii. p. 520., Wats. 

 De?id. £ri(.,t. 66.; and onv Jig. 44-1. — Leaves ovate-oblong. Petals 

 white. Bark of branches rather reddish. 



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^ S. s. 5 grandiflora. S. grandiHora Lodd. Hot. Cab., t. 1988., and our 

 fg. 442., has its pink flowers nearly twice as large as those of the 

 species ; and is a very ornamental free-growing shrub. It was raised 

 by Messrs. Loddiges from seeds sent to them from Kamtschatka, 

 in 1826, by M. Busch. 

 Description, Sfc. 5. salicifulia, according to Pallas, grows as 

 hi"h as 6ft., in favourable situations, in Russia and Siberia; 

 hut in England it is seldom found higher than 4 ft. It 

 sends up numerous straight rod-like stems, and these and 

 the lateral brandies terminate in large, conical, spiked 

 panicles, of pale red, or flesh-coloured, flowers. In deep 

 moist soils, a sucker will attain the height of 4 ft. in one 

 season, and flower. These suckers are produced m such 

 abundance, that, in order to keep the shrub in a vigorous 

 state, they ought to be cut down when they have flowered 

 two years," in the same manner as is practised with raspberries ; 

 and the entire plant ought also to be taken up every three 

 or four years, and scjjarated ; otherwise the old shoots are 

 apt to die, and render the bush unsightly. It has been in 

 cultivation in England since 1665; but whether it was in- 

 troduced from some other country, or from localities where - 

 it is said to be found wild, is uncertain. According to Dr. 

 Hooker and G. Don, it is wild in several parts of Scotland, 

 Sir J. E. Smith believes it to be wild at Hafod, in Cardigan- 

 shire ; the situation in which it grows there being perfectly like its native 

 swamps in the south of Europe. It is one of the hardiest of garden shrubs, 

 and is, also, very beautiful, from its long spicate panicles full 

 of light feathery "looking flowers. It will grow with more or 

 less°luxuriance, according to the degree of richness, and 

 moisture of the soU. 



afe 20. S. TOMENTo'sA L. The downy Spiraea. 



Idci^tification. ^Lin. Sp.,701.; Camb. Monog. ; Dec. Prod., 2. r. 544. ; Don's 

 Elgmi^rigf. Pluk. Phyt., t. 321. f. 5. ; Schmidt Arb., 1. t. 51. ; and omfg. 444. 



Spec Char., ^'c. Nearly all the parts of this plant are more 

 or'less clothed with "tomentum, the under surface of the 

 leaves most so. The tomentum upon the stem and pe- 

 duncles, and perhaps elsewhere, is of a reddish colour. 

 The leaves are ovate and serrated, the latter partly doubly 

 so Lobes of the calyx triangular and deflexed. Carpels 

 divaricate. A native of Canada, and of mountainous 

 situations in the west of North America. {Dec. Prod., ii. 



