HORTUS VEITCHII 



A bush some 6 ft. high of thin graceful reddish-purple stems clothed 

 with glabrous oblong-lanceolate leaves in the axils of which the peduncled 

 capitula of flowers are formed. 



Plants growing at Coombe Wood were raised from seed from Central 

 China. 



POPULUS LASIOCAEPA, Oliver. 



Jour. K.H.S. 1903, vol. xxviii. p. 65, fig. 27. 



Discovered by Dr. A. Henry as a tree 20 to 40 ft. high, in the Province 

 of Hupeh, Central China, and introduced to cultivation from the same 

 locality. 



The leaves are large, probably the largest of any species in the genus, 

 the plant perfectly hardy. 



PEUNUS (CERASUS) PSEUDO-CEEASUS, Lindl, 



var. JAMES H. VEITCH. 

 Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. xix. pp. 466, 51V, fig. 79. 



The finest of all forms of the Japanese Cherry, cultivated in gardens for 

 the beauty of their flowers. When travelling in that country, James H. 

 Veitch heard by chance in Tokio of a nurseryman who specialized 

 cherries in a district he was unable to visit, and he wrote for the most 

 distinct forms the man grew. Subsequent trial in England proved all to 

 be valueless save this variety. 



In this country it forms a small tree or bush-like shrub, with blossoms 

 in early spring, later than in Japan. 



The deep rose-pink double flowers are some 2 in. in diameter, the 

 young leaves serrated, of a bright bronze tint. 



PYEUS DELAVAYI, Franch. 



Plantss Delavayanae, 1890, p. 227. 



This species, one of the most interesting and ornamental of the whole 

 family, attains the dimensions of an ordinary orchard apple tree, and in 

 flower presents a similar appearance. 



The foliage of two forms, the young leaves pinnatifid and hairy, give 

 the tree the appearance of a species of Crataegus ; the mature leaves 

 obovate, entire, and nearly glabrous, present quite a different aspect. 

 The interesting fruits ovoid in shape are about the size of those of Pyrus 

 Maulei. 



Intermediate in structure between those of the quince and apple, 

 having seeds arranged in rows as in the quince, but numerically the same 

 as in the apple. 



A native of the high plateaux of Yunnan, first discovered by Pere 

 Delavay, and subsequently introduced to cultivation. , 



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