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the best of deciduous subjects, is raised from the seeds or 

 haws, sown broadcast in beds, and transplanted when a 

 year old into nursery-beds! Fences are best planted with 

 two-year-old plants. The stocks for grafting should be four 

 years old ; and, if they are not placed where the trees are to 

 remain, they should have been transplanted annually previ- 

 ously to grafting them. 



The species are all desirable; but the following are se- 

 lected in regard to their different qualities and properties : 



FOR FLOWERS. C. cordata; flowers white, in large corymbs. 

 C. Mexicana; flowers white, succeeded by large yellowish apple- 

 like fruit. C. Oxyacanthaflore-plenoj with double white flowers. 

 C. Oxyacantha pracox ; the Glastonbury thorn ; white, the ear- 

 liest of all, blooming in early May. C. Oxyacantha puniceaj 

 with crimson flowers. C. Oxyacantha rosea flore-pleno ; with 

 double crimson flowers. 



FOR FRUIT. C. Aronia; fruit yellow. C. Azarolus ; fruit 

 scarlet. C. coccineaj fruit scarlet. C. Douglasii; fruit dark 

 purple. C. Mexicanus; fruit pale yellowish-green. C. Orien- 

 talisj fruit coral-colored. C. Oxyacantha melanocarpa; fruit 

 black. C. tanacetifolia Leeanaj fruit yellow. 



FOR HABIT OF GROWTH. C. Crusgalli; spreading. C.glan- 

 dulosa; compact. C. Oxycantha pendulaj drooping. C. pur- 

 pureaj upright, rigid. C. Oxyacantha strictaj fastigiate. 



C. Crusgalli pyracanthifolia is a remarkable grotesque 

 little tree, like a miniature cedar of Lebanon. C. pyracan- 

 tha is an evergreen trailing species, with bunches of fiery 

 berries in winter. It is one of the best of plants for train- 

 ing against a wall or building. 



CRAWFORDIA. [Gentianaceae.] Beautiful half-hardy per- 

 ennial twiner, thriving in loamy peat. Increased by cut- 

 tings or division. 



C. fasciculata (fascicled) ; 4 feet ; flowers blue, in August ; 

 Himalaya; 1855. 



