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C. ANGUSTIFOLIA. This is proving much 

 more attractive as a wall shrub than 

 appeared likely when it was first intro- 

 duced a few years ago, fruiting very freely 

 and growing luxuriantly. It is quite 

 evergreen, like the common Pyracantha, 

 but differs from it in its narrower downy 

 leaves. The fruits become a brilliant 

 orange, and on sunny winter days make a 

 bright effect. 



C. ARNOLDIANA, a tree 15 or 20 feet 

 in height, with a broad irregular head. 

 The flowers are borne as loose downy 

 clusters towards the end of May. The 

 bright crimson fruit, usually a little 



clusters, ripens at the end of September 

 or early in October. The foliage is a 

 deep blue-green, and the tree is exceedingly 

 handsome when in flower. 



C. COCCINOIDES. Comes rather near C. 

 Durobrivensis, but differs in its dark 

 grey branches, smaller flowers, and the 

 early dropping of its fruit. It is a hand- 

 some species, found from S. Illinois to 

 E. Missouri. 



C. DUNBARI. Forms a dense round- 

 topped shrub of 12 to 15 feet. The flowers, 

 with rose-coloured anthers, gathered into 

 long compound clusters, open about 

 2oth May. The large drooping clusters 



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longer than broad, ripens about the middle 

 of August, and soon falls. The tree is 

 remarkable for the early ripening of its 

 finely-coloured fruits in summer or early 

 autumn. 



C. BAXTERI. A spreading shrub, with a 

 broad head and 12 to 14 feet high. The 

 flowers come about the first week in June, 

 and the orange-red fruits ripen about the 

 middle of October. The leaves are dull 

 bluish-green, nearly oval in outline, and 

 with a peculiarly concave surface, by 

 which the tree is easily recognised. 



C. BEATA. A handsome shrub of 15 to 

 1 8 feet, bearing large saucer - shaped 

 flowers, an inch or more across, with dark 

 crimson anthers, coming into bloom 

 during the last week in May. The oblong, 

 crimson fruit, gathered in large drooping 



of showy crimson fruit ripen towards the 

 end of September. The leaves are very 

 distinct in outline, oval or almost evenly 

 rounded. 



C. DUROBRIVENSIS. A tall, upright 

 shrub of 15 to 18 feet, with olive-grey 

 stems. The large showy flowers, with 

 rose-coloured anthers, open in the last 

 week of May, and the glowing scarlet fruits 

 ripen about the end of September and 

 hang without loss of beauty all through 

 the autumn and early winter, when their 

 colour is very valuable. 



C. ELLWANGERIANA. A handsome tree 

 25 or more feet high, with a trunk a foot 

 in diameter, and branching into a spread- 

 ing head 25 to 30 feet across. The 

 fragrant flowers, an inch across, with rosy 

 anthers, conie in large clusters about 



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