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marvellously beautiful that the smallest garden should 

 contain one or more specimens of the more distinct 

 forms. In many gardens, even in those with a con- 

 siderable area, they are wholly unrepresented, a fact 

 difficult to understand except on the assumption that 

 planters are not acquainted with them. 



The cherries will thrive in soils of all descriptions 

 but they attain their fullest development in a soil con- 

 taining a liberal percentage of calcareous matter. A 

 little lime rubble or chalk added to the soil when being 

 prepared for the reception of the trees or an occasional 

 top dressing of slaked lime will give them the necessary 

 supply of calcareous matter. The weeping varieties 

 should be planted in isolated positions on the lawn 

 where there will be no interference with their natural 

 growth. The others may be arranged singly or in 

 small groups on the lawn and in the shrubbery and 

 along the margins of plantations. 



One of the finest of these is C. aviam multiplex, an 

 elegant tree reaching a height of thirty feet or more and 

 most profuse in blooming ; the flowers are pure white, 

 quite double and an inch or more in diameter and they 

 are produced in such large numbers that the branches 

 are simply wreaths of the snow-white blossoms. C. 

 mahaleb pendula is an elegant weeping form bearing 

 myriads of small single flowers. C. sinensis pendula rosea 

 is another weeping cherry equally as elegant in aspect 

 as the last-named but with much larger flowers which 

 differ also in being of a pleasing rose shade. C. pseudo- 

 cerasus (syn. C. Sieboldi rosea plena) is quite different in 

 character to the foregoing and although less graceful is 

 very handsome. The trees are relatively dwarf and 

 range from ten to fifteen feet, the branches are stout 

 and rigid, and the flowers are large, pale rose, and pro- 

 duced in short racemes. Waterers variety has larger 

 and more brightly coloured flowers, and the Japanese 



