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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



17. V. (O.) ORIENTA V LE Pall. The Eastern Guelder Rose. 



Pall. Ross., t. 58. f. H. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 328. ; Don's Mill., 3. 

 O'pulus orientSlis fblio amplfssimo tridentato Town. Cor. p. 42. 



Identification. 



p. 442. 

 Synont/me 

 Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., t. 58. f. H. ; and our yfe.957 



(O.) orlentMe. 



968. V. (0.) Oiycdccos. 



Spec. Char.y %c. Leaves 3-lobed, acuminated, coarsely and 

 bluntly toothed. Petioles glandless, glabrous. Corymbs 

 terminal, not radiant. Fruit oblong, compressed. Seed oval, 

 furnished with two channels on both sides, as in V. Lantana. 

 (Don's Mill.) A low shrub. Georgia, in Asia Minor, in 

 woods, on the mountains. Height 6ft. to 10ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1827. Flowers white ; July. Fruit ; ?. 957 . r 



at 18. V. (O.) OXYCO'CCOS Pursh. The Cranberry/nwferf Guelder Rose. 



Identification. Pursh Sept., 1. p. 203. ; Dec. Prod., 4. 



p. 328. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 442. 

 Synomjmes. V. opuloldes MUhl. Cat. 32. ; V. trilobum 



Marsh. Arb. p. 162. ; V. O'pulus americana Ait. Hort. 



Kew. 1. p. 373. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 958. from a specimen in the Lam. 



bertian nerbarium. 



Spec. Char.y fyc. Leaves 3-lobed, acute 

 behind, 3-nerved. Lobes divaricate, acu- 

 minated, coarsely and distantly serrated. 

 Petioles glandular. Cymes radiant. (Don's 

 Mill.) A large shrub or low tree. New 

 York and New Jersey, on mountains and 

 throughout Canada, to the arctic circle. 

 Height 6 ft. to 12 ft. Flowers white ; 

 July. Fruit subglobose, red, of an agree- 

 able acid, resembling that of cranberries, 

 for which they are a very good substitute ; 

 ripe in September. 



Varieties. 



3fc V. (O.) O. 2 subintegrifolius Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. p. 281., Don's 



Mill. iii. p. 442. Leaves but little cut, very pubescent beneath. A 



native of the banks of the Columbia. 

 & V. (O.) O. 3 mollis. V. molle Michx. 



Fl. Bor. Amer. i. p. 180., Don's 



Mill. iii. p. 442. ; V. alnifolium 



Marsh Arb. p. 162. (Our Jig. 959.) 



Leaves nearly orbicular, cor- 

 date, plicate, toothed. (DorisMill.) 



Fruit oblong ovate, red. 

 Very like V. O'pulus, and there can be 

 no doubt but that it is only the American 

 form of that species. The fruit is com- 

 paratively large, and not disagreeable to the taste. Were a great number of 

 seedlings grown till they produced fruit, and then the plant producing the 

 largest and best-flavoured fruit selected and propagated by extension, the 

 cranberry-fruited guelder rose might be cultivated in our kitchen-gardens and 

 orchards for the same purpose as the common cranberry. We have no doubt 

 whatever that its fruit would be soon as much relished by the public as the 

 cranberry ; and, as the guelder rose is less difficult in regard to soil and situa- 

 tion than that plant, a crop of fruit might be depended on with greater 

 certainty. At all events, this and similar experiments offer interesting and 

 useful employment to the amateur who has nothing better to do. 



& 19. V. (O.) EDU^LK Pursh. The edible-fruited Guelder Rose. 



Identification. Pursh Sept., 1. p. 203. ; Dec. Prod , 4. p. 328. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 442. 



959. V. (O.) O. mdlle. 



