410 COTONE ASTER 



smooth above, pale and very woolly beneath when young, becoming almost 

 smooth by autumn. Flowers white, in. across, produced very numerously in 

 flattish corymbs 2 ins. or more across, terminating short leafy twigs ; flower- 

 stalks very woolly. Fruits in large clusters, each fruit about the size of a pea, 

 rich bright red. 



Native of the Himalaya ; introduced in 1824, and perhaps the most striking 

 of all Cotoneasters. The splendid clusters of " berries " wreathing the branches 

 make some of the most brilliant pictures of autumn and early winter. Near 

 London, owing to the attacks of birds, they disappear usually before Christmas, 

 but in country places are occasionally seen hanging until February. The 

 species is the most robust in the genus, making if left to itself a huge bush 

 20 ft. high and as much through, consisting of numerous branching stems. 

 But if kept to one stem when young and the lower branches removed, it will 

 make a pretty round-headed tree with a well-shaped trunk. There is a fine 

 specimen of this kind in the Victoria Park at Bath, whose trunk is 6 ft. or so 

 high and i ft. or more thick. No hardy shrub more beautiful than this thrives 

 in town gardens. 



Var. FRUCTU-LUTEO. Fruits yellowish or creamy white ; rare and little 

 known, but not so beautiful as the type. A specimen is growing in the gardens 

 of.Stevenstone, Torrington, North Devon. 



C. HARROVIANA, Wilson. 



An evergreen shrub of loose, spreading habit, growing 6 ft. in height, and 

 more in diameter ; young shoots at first covered with a pale down (which later 

 falls away), afterwards becoming nearly or quite smooth, glossy, and turning a 

 dark purplish brown, almost black, on the side exposed to the sun. Leaves 

 oval to obovate, wedge-shaped at the base, pointed at the apex, where the 

 midrib is extended into a short biistle (or mucro) ; I to 2^ ins. long, ^ to I in. 

 wide ; at first sparsely downy above, afterwards smooth, and bright dark green, 

 covered beneath with a pale yellowish brown wool, which partially falls away 

 by the end of the year ; stalk ^ to ^ in. long. Flowers numerously and densely 

 arranged in axillary and terminal corymbs about i ins. across ; petals 

 round, white ; calyx and flower-stalk thickly coated with grey wool, the calyx- 

 lobes triangular and pointed. Stamens twenty, with - reddish purple anthers. 

 Fruit red. 



Native of Yunnan, China; discovered by Henry; introduced in 1899 by 

 Wilson for Messrs Veitch, in honour of whose manager at the Coombe Wood 

 nurseries, Mr Geo. Harrow, it is named. It is most nearly allied to 

 C. pannosa, but has larger, more leathery leaves, and larger flower clusters. 

 One of the handsomest of Cotoneasters in flower. 



C. HENRYANA, ReJider and Wilson. 



(C. rugosa var. Henryana, C. K. Schneider?) 



An evergreen shrub, 10 to 12 ft. high, of sparse habit ; the branches 

 gracefully pendulous ; young shoots hairy, becoming the second year smooth, 

 and of a dark purplish brown. Leaves 2 to 4^ ins. long, about one-third as 

 wide, narrowly oval or obovate, finely pointed, da~rk green, and somewhat rough 

 to the touch above ; covered beneath when young with a greyish wool which 

 mostly falls away by the second season, that which remains becoming brown, 

 and confined to the midrib and veins, the under-surface still remaining 

 brownish white ; veins in nine to twelve pairs ; stalk to \ in. long, hairy. 

 Flowers white, produced about the middle of June in corymbs 2 to 2^ ins. 

 across, terminating leafy twigs less than i in. long, that spring from the"axils 



