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upon circumstances. They will retain their leaves in mild winters or 

 warm localities, but lose them where the cold is greater. Vigorous young 

 plants and those growing in good soil will also retain their foliage longer. 

 The taller species from their beauty in fruit, grace of habit, and vigorous 

 constitution, are admirable constituents of 'the tall shrubbery, but they are 

 still better as isolated specimens on the lawn or in groups in thin wood- 

 land. The smaller species make useful and handsome coverings for 

 sloping, sunny banks, whilst the dwarfest of all are very well adapted for 

 the rock garden. 



A selection of the best species would include the following : 



Tall shrubs. Buxifolia, Francheti, frigida, moupinensis, Simonsii, multi- 

 flora, bacillaris. 



Medium and dwarf. Rotundifolia, horizontalis, microphylla. 

 For rock garden. Thymaefolia, congesta, adpressa. 

 As a ground carpet. Humifusa. 



C. ACUMINATA, Lindley. 



A deciduous shrub, 10 to 14 ft. high, of erect habit ; young shoots thickly 

 covered with a pale brown wool. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, i to 2 ins. long, 

 about half as wide, long-pointed, dark green and silky-hairy above when 

 young, paler and more hairy beneath ; stalk in. or less long. Flowers more 

 or less pink, f in. across, produced in small clusters of rarely more than five, 

 often of two or three, on short leafy twigs. Fruit red, \ in. long, oblong, 

 thickening towards the top. 



Native of the Himalaya, up to 12,000 ft. ; first raised in this country by the 

 Loddiges of Hackney in 1820. The species, which is not much grown in 

 gardens now, is allied to C. Simonsii, but differs in its much larger, longer- 

 pointed leaves. According to Brandis it often occurs as underwood in oak 

 forests. 



C. ACUTIFOLIA, Turczaninow. 



(Gardeners' Chronicle, Jan. 6, 1912, fig. I.) 



A deciduous shrub of bushy habit, 5 to 7 ft. high, branches often pendulous ; 

 young twigs downy. Leaves pointed, ovate-lanceolate to oval, I to 2^ ins. 

 long, half as wide ; dull green, and with scattered hairs above, paler and~hairy 

 beneath especially when young ; veins in five or six pairs ; stalk ^ to \ in. 

 long. Flowers white, three or more together m corymbs ; stalks and calyx 

 woolly, lobes of calyx triangular. Fruit reddish at first, finally black, in. 

 diameter, smooth. 



Native of N. and W. China. This is not one of the handsomest of 

 Cotoneasters, and is, perhaps, a poor form of C. lucida (q.v.}. There has been 

 much confusion between the two, owing to C. lucida also having been called 

 C. acutifolia ; but from that species the present one is distinguished by its 

 dull green, not shining, more hairy leaves, and its woolly calyx and flower- 

 stalks. 



Var. VILLOSULA, Rehder and Wilson. Young shoots clothed with yellowish 

 grey loose hairs, becoming smooth and purplish brown the second year. 

 Leaves ii to 4^ ins. long, ^ to 2j ins. wide, larger and more drawn out at the 

 apex than in the type. Petals rose-tinted white. Fruit roundish pear-shaped, 



tin. long, woolly, ultimately shining black. Native of W. Hupeh ; introduced 

 y Wilson in 1900. A very vigorous shrub. 



