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TREES AND SHRUBS 



NAME. 



COUNTRY OR 



ORIGIN AND 



NATURAL ORDER. 



COLOUR 



AND 

 SEASON. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



Prunus Avium (the 

 Gean or Wild 

 Cherry) 



P. Cerasus (Dwarf 

 or Wild Cherry) 



Europe and 

 Britain 



Pure white 



April and 



May 



White ; 

 Spring 



P. Chamaecerasus 

 (Siberian Cherry) 



; 'P. japonica 



Europe, but long 



grown in English 



gardens 



China and Japan 



White 

 flowers, 

 [ in. across;! 



Spring 



Double, 

 pure white 



*double white (flore-pleno), 

 which is one of the loveliest 

 of all flowering trees. In 

 late April the whole tree 

 seems enveloped in blossom 

 as white as driven snow, and 

 it lasts for many days in this 

 condition. No garden should 

 be without this queen of 

 flowering trees. 



This is not very interesting, 

 except that it is one of the 

 parents of the fruiting cherry, 

 and in the garden is hardly 

 wanted, as its double- 

 flowered varieties are far 

 more beautiful, especially 

 *Rhexi flore-pleno, which has 

 very double, snow-white, 

 rosette-shaped flowers. It is 

 one of the most beautiful of 

 all the Cherries, and when 

 grown as a standard makes 

 a small and spreading tree 

 of much charm. It is some- 

 times catalogued as C. cap- 

 roniana multiplex, C. c. 

 ranunculiflora, and C. sero- 

 tina flore-pleno. Persicifolia 

 has similar flowers, but tinged 

 with rose. C. Cerasus and C. 

 Avium have much in common , 

 but the former has smaller 

 leaves and an acid fruit. 



This is a small shrub, seldom 

 more than 4 feet high ; it 

 has slender branches, shin- 

 ing dark-green leaves and 

 flowers, followed by small 

 reddish - purple acid fruits. 

 When grown as a standard 

 it makes a round, half-droop- 

 ing and graceful tree. 



This is one of the prettiest of 

 small shrubs when in flower. 

 It is very charming against a 

 wall, but is a success in the 

 open, flowering freely, and 

 for this reason makes an in- 

 teresting and beautiful group. 

 It grows between 3 and 4 

 feet high, and its long slender 

 branches are often weighed 

 down by the wealth of pure- 

 white flowers. The leaves 

 are tinged with red when 

 young. The flowers of the 

 variety flore-roseo-pleno are 

 rich rose ; it is a beautiful 

 shrub. Increase only by layers 

 or by cuttings ; never graft. 



