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flowers, G. P. Sinensis, of some, is a distinct species, 

 with small flowers early in the spring, followed by necta- 

 rine-like fruit. 



The Flowering Almonds belong here. Some of the 

 so-called Flowering Almonds are properly plums or cher- 

 ries. One of the best known is the 



Double White Flowering Almond, a small tree 

 with a great profusion of double white flowers in 

 early spring. It has very rich foliage. The Kose-flow- 

 ered Almond resembles the preceding, except in the color 

 of its flowers. 



The Dwarf Flowering Almonds {Primus [amygda- 

 lus] nana) are very old garden favorites, their double 

 flowers are rose -colored or white, and produced in great 

 profusion. 



The Flowering Peaches, when properly pruned, are 

 very handsome, but if left to grow at will, form unsightly 

 broad heads. There is a double white and a double rose- 

 colored variety, and one in which the flowers are curious- 

 ly variegated, being white and rose-colored upon the 

 same tree. The Blood-leaved Peach has its foliage in 

 spring and early summer of a bright, crimsom color, but 

 later it turns to a dull green. 



THE LABURNUM OR GOLDEN CHAIN. Lahumum. O. 



Ornamental, profuse-flowering, small trees and shrubs, 

 which succeed in almost any soil, but at the North are 

 apt to be injured in winter. 



The Common Laburnum or Golden Chain (Labur- 

 num vulgare) has glossy, trifoliate leaves and drooping 

 racemes of yellow flowers, which give the tree a very rich 

 appearance. 



Alschinger's Laburnum {L. Alschingeri), and 

 Park's Laburnum (L. vulgare, var. ParJcii), are dis- 

 tinct forms, and produce similar racemes of yellow flow- 



