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aspiring; the foliage ver}' heavy and dense, of darker color, oblong to 

 roundish, and characteristically disposed in horizontal layers. These 

 forms are seemingly less liable to rust fungi, very rapid growers, and 

 thoroughly hardy. 



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Fig. 107. — Japanese Flowering Cherry. Pntmis Pseudo-Cerasus 

 Lindl. 



P. Razumojskiana (270 bis) is another Russian, with oblong foliage, 

 which seems little known in this country, but in its native habitat is 

 considered by far the finest, forming a large picturesque tree, and is 

 the most rapid grower of all the poplars. A specimen at Ottawa 

 proves perfectly hardy, and promises to live up to its reputation. 



CHERRIES, PEACHES, PLUMS 



Prunus (Cerasus). This large genus of the rose family, with about 

 seventy-five species, contains many small trees and shrubs worthy of 



