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ARBORETUM ET FRL TICETUM BIUTANNICUM. 



Flowers white, disposed in terminal corymbose panicles. Fruit small, 

 smooth. Evergreen trees ; natives of Asia and America, requiring the 

 same garden treatment as Cratse v gus (on which all the species may be 

 grafted), except that the species are somewhat more tender, and are best 

 grown against a wall even in the climate of London, 



1. P. SERRULA'TA Lindl. The serrulated- leaved Photinia. 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 103. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 631.; and Don's Mill., 2. 



p. 602. 



Synonyme. Cratac v gus glabra Thunb. Fl. Jap. 205., Bot. Mag., Lodd. Bot. Cab., Colla Hort. Ripul. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2105. ; Bot. Cab., t. 248. ; Colla Hort. Ripul., t. 36. ; the plate of this 



species in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol.vi. : arid our fig. 733. 



733. T'hotfnia serrulatn. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves oblong, acute, serrulated. Pedicels longer than the 

 calyx. Buds large, red. {Dec. Prod.) An evergreen shrub or low tree. Ja- 

 pan and China. Height 12 ft. to 15 ft. Introduced in 1804. Flowers 

 white ; April and May. Fruit ? ; rarely produced in England. 



The young shoots and leaves are remarkable for their deep red, or ma- 

 hogany colour ; and the decaying leaves exhibit this colour much more in- 

 tensely, mixed with a fine yellow or scarlet. Altogether it forms a very- 

 splendid plant, when trained against a wall ; or, in warm sheltered situations, 

 as a standard. It is commonly grafted or budded on thorn stocks ; and it 

 also does well upon quince stocks. In the neighbourhood of London it flowers 

 between the middle of April and the middle of May ; but it has not yet pro- 

 duced fruit in England. The largest and oldest plants are at White Knights, 

 where it was planted in 1804 ; and, in 1835, formed a large bush or tree, 

 nearly 15 ft. high. 



2. P. ^RBUTIFO^LIA Lindl. The Arbutus-leaved Photinia 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 103. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 631. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 602. 

 Synonyme. Cratae v gus wrbutifblia Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. 3. p. 232. 

 Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 491. ; and our fig. 734. 



