Bird graceful. It attains a height of thirty feet, and begins to 

 Cherries flower the end of April, or more usually the beginning of May. 

 an( J The weeping variety is the best, and if possible must not be 

 Varieties of orn itted from any collection of flowering trees. 



Pvrus Compared to the double varieties, the Bird Cherries, classed 



in a group of their own as Prunus Padus, seem insignificant, 

 but if there is space they are pretty too, and may well be 

 introduced into any bit of woodland. Padus flore plena is a 

 great improvement on the single form, and has heads of bloom 

 more like a Lilac in form than an ordinary Cherry, though 

 the individual sprays are much smaller. 



The latest of the Cherries the Morellas, and the Kentish 

 Cherry, with the stone clinging to the stalk lead on to the time 

 of the Pyruses. Both the former make graceful drooping trees 

 with slender branches, and should be grown near that most 

 munificent of flowering trees Pyrus Mains floribunda. The back 

 entrance to a neighbouring garden is graced with a line of these 

 two trees, making a picture every year when their lovely sprays 

 of pink and white droop over the bed of budding Iris, though 

 they are so striking that they can afford to stand alone, or 

 backed by Holly, as in the sketch. Pyrus Malus atrosanguinea 

 is more fully coloured \h^njloribunda^ but to my mind is not so 

 beautiful, and the variety jftore plena is still redder. 



Many of these Crabs should be grown too for their beauty 

 in the autumn, when their bunches of fruit are remarkably 

 picturesque. The Siberian Crab, P. baccata, is one of the best, 

 with first a profusion of bright pink flowers, and later clusters of 

 miniature scarlet apples the size of a cherry, but with a delicate 

 grey bloom and the dimple of an apple. P. Ringo has large 

 yellow fruit, very effective in September. 



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