256 Ornamental Shrubs. 



climate and conditions. The tree is bushy, spreading in 

 habit, and has small leaves and slender twigs. There are 

 several other single-flowering sorts, such as nioi-sakura, 

 which has blush flowers, sweet-scented like the foregoing, 

 and appearing later, thus helping out the cherry season. 

 Jishiu is reckoned a single-flowered plant but has a ten- 

 dency to become double. The flowers are blush, and 

 spread wide open, showing numerous long red stamens 

 with yellow anthers. It, too, is a profuse bloomer. 

 Koma-tome has a very large, pure-white flower with broad 

 petals and numerous long, showy stamens. The flower 

 stems are also long, panicled, or branched. It is an early 

 bloomer. 



Of the double-flowering sorts, there is a long list from 

 which it is almost impossible to make satisfactory selec- 

 tions because of their uniform merit. Among them is 

 fuzan-fukan, the flowers of which are double, reddish- 

 pink in color, almost globular in shape, and continue to 

 bloom until late in May. Botan-sakura has reddish 

 flowers, very large and double, at their best in the latter 

 part of April. Ko-fugen is said to be the largest-flowering 

 sort among the cherries. The blossoms often measure 

 two inches or more in diameter, and are very double and 

 very late, the color reddish-pink, growing lighter with age. 

 Kode-maru is peculiar, as the flowers appear in very dense 

 clusters at intervals upon the branches, and being short- 

 stemmed they are crowded into balls which give the tree 

 an unique appearance. In color they are light pink, the 

 petals narrow and only moderately double. Yo-kihi has 

 very large and very double flowers, color pink. The 



