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Among the best are Knap Hill Scarlet, 

 with large crimson-scarlet flowers ; nivalis, 

 the best pure white ; albo-cincta, in which 

 they are tinted pink ; coccinea, bright 

 scarlet ; princeps, glowing crimson ; um- 

 bilicata, bright pink and one of the best, 

 its flowers thickly clustered and yet well 

 distributed ; Moerloosei, crimson-scarlet ; 

 rosea, rosy-pink ; sulphured, pale creamy- 

 yellow ; and cardinalis, deep purplish- 



shoots show to perfection. These are 

 C. Sargenti, from the mountains of Japan, 

 with a semi-prostrate habit and rather 

 small, bright red flowers borne very freely. 

 C. pygmaea is only 2 feet high, of a more 

 erect habit, and so near C. Maulei in ap- 

 pearance and colour of its orange-salmon 

 flowers that it is supposed to have come 

 from that kind. C. Simonii, a seedling 

 form of C. japonica, is of prostrate habit, 



Flower Spray of the Vranja Quince. 



crimson. New continental forms are 

 Baltzii, with rosy-red flowers on the new 

 wood ; Mallardi, rosy flowers edged with 

 white ; Gaugardi, salmon-red ; semper- 

 florens, with a very long succession of 

 bright red flowers ; and macrocarpa and 

 Columbia, f remarkable for their large 

 fruits, which in the last kind sometimes 

 measure 10 inches in circumference. 

 There are beside several kinds of distinct 

 habit, useful for planting in the rock 

 garden where the larger kinds would be 

 out of place, and yet where the' trailing 



with large blood-red flowers of rich effect 

 in the rock garden. 



C. MAULEI (Maule's Quince). This 

 differs in its smaller growth, smaller 

 foliage, spiny branches, smaller flowers, 

 and also in the fruits, which are more 

 deeply grooved, turn to a bright golden 

 colour with ruddy cheeks, and are strongly 

 scented. The plant has shown far less 

 variation than the Japan Quince, but 

 there are a few named forms, and other 

 good seedlings distinct in colour are now 

 in cultivation. Trie best variety is 



